Vice-Chancellor Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay’s term extended for two months

Kolkata: The state Higher Education department has extended the Calcutta University’s Vice-Chancellor Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay’s term for a period of two months, effective from January 20.

Chattopadhyay was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University (CU) for three months or till the appointment of a regular vice-chancellor as per recommendation by the search committee in October, 2022. Chattopadhyay, prior to that, was serving as Pro Vice-Chancellor of CU.

A notification in this regard was brought out by the Higher Education department that indicated the official release of Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee as the university’s VC.

Recently, the state Higher Education department had appointed professor of power engineering at Jadavpur University Amitava Datta as the university’s pro-Vice Chancellor.

A notification by the department dated February 13 stated that the Governor CV Ananda Bose, who is also the chancellor of Jadavpur University has decided to appoint Datta for the position in consultation with the state Higher Education minister. Datta has been appointed for the position for a period of four years from the date he assumes the office.