The State government has appointed a search committee to scrutinise the applications received and send a shortlist of names to the Governor to appoint one of them as the next vice-chancellor of Karnataka University, Dharwad (KUD) here.
As per the fresh guidelines issued by the UGC, the search committee should have four members: a UGC nominee, a government nominee, a Syndicate nominee and a Governor’s nominee.
The nominees include Dr Kasturirangan appointed by the State government as the head of the committee, former vice-chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, J H Kulkarni as the Syndicate nominee, Prof Sateesh Jigjinni of BLDE, Vijayapura, as the Governor’s nominee and Prof Vikram Jamdar of the Nagpur Technological University as the UGC nominee.
As many as 90 candidates have applied for the post of KUD vice-chancellor. A majority of them are working as senior professors in other universities.
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