Jamia V-C calls on Chancellor

New Delhi: Manipur Governor and Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) Dr Najma Heptulla has advised vice-chancellor Prof Najma Akhtar to take new initiatives to bring high quality academic and administrative changes in the university during their meeting here on Sunday.

This was the first face-to-face meeting Prof Akhtar had with the Chancellor after taking over as VC of the university last month. It is for the first time in the history of the nearly 100-year-old university that both the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor is women.

During the meeting, they discussed various issues relating to the university. The VC briefed the Chancellor about the steps she has taken in the first month of her taking over as the VC of JMI. As per the official release, Dr Heptulla appreciated the efforts being put in by the VC for further improving the academic activities and promised all possible help to make the university an institution of international standard.

Dr Heptulla also gave suggestions to improve the performance of some of the well-known centres of the university like AJK MCRC. The Manipur Governor also suggested engaging eminent alumni of MCRC who have excelled in the field of media in the advisory committee of the centre. Dr. Heptulla, a well-known politician and academician, is the grand-niece of the renowned scholar, freedom fighter and the first education minister of Independent India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.