President Ram Nath Kovind, who is the Visitor to central universities, has approved the appointment of vice-chancellors in 12 varsities.

The President is the Visitor to 146 central universities and institutions of higher learning.

Section 8 of the Central Universities Act, 2009 deals with the powers of the Visitor.

Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan had informed the Rajya Sabha that a total of 22 posts of vice-chancellors in central universities are vacant, out of which appointments to 12 posts have already been finalised by the President. 

The newly appointed vice-chancellors are: 

• Tankeshwar Kumar (Central University of Haryana)

• Sat Prakash Bansal (Central University of Himachal Pradesh)

• Sanjeev Jain (Central University of Jammu)

• Kshiti Bhusan Das (Central University of Jharkhand)

• Battu Satyanarayana (Central University of Karnataka)

• Muthukalingan Krishnan (Central University of Tamil Nadu)

• Basuthkar J.Rao (Central University of Hyderabad)

• Kameshwar Nath Singh (Central University of South Bihar)

• Prabha Shankar Shukla (North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong)

• Alok Kumar Chakrawal (Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur)

• Syed Ainul Hasan (Maulana Azad National Urdu University)

• Lokendra Singh (Manipur University).

The 10 universities, which still continue to operate without full time vice-chancellors, include Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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