UoH VC to step down

June 04, 2021 09:14 pm | Updated 09:14 pm IST - HYDERABAD

Prof. Appa Rao Podile will demit office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) on June 7. He will hand over charge to Prof. Arun Agarwal, Pro Vice Chancellor 1, and the senior-most professor in the university.

Prof. Podile had requested the Ministry of Education (MoE) in March to relieve him from the position. Based on his request, the approval from the President, who was the Visitor for all Central universities and appointing authority of their vice-chancellors, was received recently.

Prof. Podile was appointed VC of UoH on September 21, 2015, for a period of five years and granted one year’s extension in September 2020. Prof. Podile is a senior professor in the department of Plant Sciences in the School of Life Sciences at UoH.

His tenure was marked by nation-wide protests demanding his resignation following the suicide of research scholar Rohit Vemula in January 2016. The student had ended his life after suspension from a hostel and alleged caste discrimination.

The university was recognised as an institution of eminence by Central government in 2019 and recently ranked among world’s top universities by QS World Universities Rankings 2021.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.