National University of Study and Research in law (NUSRl) and Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) will get new Vice Chancellors (VCs). Professor AK Koul, law cradle’s first VC completed his tenure last September and CUJ’s first VC Professor Darlando Thanmi Khating will complete his tenure by February end 2014.
A search committee comprising Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice R Banumathi, Justice DN Patel and Chanakya law National law University Patna VC Dr A lakshminath are to decide the new VC of NUSRl. On, the other side Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has notified an advertisement in its website for 12 Central Universities VCs including CUJ on October 26.
According to sources, a meeting among the mentioned NUSRl search committee members was held in the High Court on Thursday regarding this VC appointment.
“It is highly confidential to reveal any input of this meeting. Our new VC might be appointed by the end of this year,” said NUSRl Registrar Alok Kumar Sengupta. Presently, NUSRl is being run by an Assistant Professor of Economics Dr Shweta Mohan as officiating VC.
Both these universities are yet to shift to their permanent campuses. Established in 2010, NUSRl is carrying out its academic sessions in a building of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra’s Polytechnic campus.
The construction of its permanent campus at Nagri is under process. While, CUJ was established in the state capital in 2009 and carrying its courses at Brambe. The permanent campus of this university too is under construction at Cheri-Manatu.