Professor Devi Prasad Tripathi will be the vice chancellor of Uttarakhand Sanskrit University in Haridwar. The governor’s secretary Ramesh Kumar Sudhanshu informed that the governor Baby Rani Maurya who is also the chancellor of the university has appointed Tripathi as the vice chancellor of Uttarakhand Sanskrit University for a period of three years from the date of his assuming charge of attaining 65 years of age, whichever is earlier.
Tripathi is the head of Vastushastra department in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi. This appointment will be applicable after the end of the current vice chancellor Professor Piyushkant Dikshit’s term on February 28. Professor Tripathi is a native of Nandprayag in Chamoli district of the State.