Tariq Mansoor is new AMU Vice-Chancellor

Mansoor was selected from a list of three names that the university’s court had sent to the Union Human Resource Development ministry two months ago

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Tariq Mansoor is principal of AMU’s JN Medical College.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday appointed Tariq Mansoor as Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor. Mansoor, 60, the principal of AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, will succeed Lt Gen (retd) Zameeruddin Shah, who will retire on May 17. He has been associated with the university for 35 years. “I do not know anything about this as I have not received an official communication or order from the government yet,” Mansoor told The Indian Express.

Mansoor was selected from a list of three names that the university’s court had sent to the Union Human Resource Development ministry two months ago. Abu Saleh Sharif, executive director and chief scholar, US-India Policy Institute, Washington, and Shahid Jameel, CEO, Welcome Trust and DBT India Alliance were the other two contenders.

A section within the university has pointed out that Sharif and Jameel had never served as professors in an educational institution as mandated by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The matter went to the Supreme Court. It refused to interfere in the selection process saying that all three candidates fulfilled academic guidelines.

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Mansoor’s first task will be to facilitate AMU’s academic, research, financial and infrastructure audit on April 25. An audit committee will submit its report within a month. The audit was ordered after the ministry received a large number of complaints regarding AMU’s working under Shah.

The ministry had in October sought the President’s approval to launch a inquiry against Shah and a show-cause notice was subsequently issued to him. The government has not acted on his reply to the notice. A comprehensive audit has been ordered instead.

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Ritika Chopra, an award-winning journalist with over 17 years of experience, serves as the Chief of the National Bureau (Govt) and National Education Editor at The Indian Express in New Delhi. In her current role, she oversees the newspaper's coverage of government policies and education. Ritika closely tracks the Union Government, focusing on the politically sensitive Election Commission of India and the Education Ministry, and has authored investigative stories that have prompted government responses. Ritika joined The Indian Express in 2015. Previously, she was part of the political bureau at The Economic Times, India’s largest financial daily. Her journalism career began in Kolkata, her birthplace, with the Hindustan Times in 2006 as an intern, before moving to Delhi in 2007. Since then, she has been reporting from the capital on politics, education, social sectors, and the Election Commission of India. ... Read More

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