Rakesh Bhatnagar appointed BHU VC

JNU professor Rakesh Bhatnagar has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), the HRD Ministry said. Shri Bhatnagar, who was VC of Kumaon University from 2012 to 2013, has been teaching at JNU for two decades and his areas of interest include molecular biology of infectious diseases, recombinant vaccine development and programmed cell death in prokaryotes.

President Ram Nath Kovind, who is the Visitor to the university, approved Bhatnagar’s appointment this week, a senior HRD Ministry official said.He will take charge from BHU Registrar Neeraj Tripathi, who had been holding the additional charge of the top post since October last year. Shri Bhatnagar’s predecessor, Girish Chandra Tripathi, had gone on leave two months before his tenure came to an end, following a ruckus on campus in September last year.

IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Rakesh Bhatnagar the very best.