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    Gurmeet Singh is new VC of Pondy University

    Professor Gurmeet Singh of the Department of Chemistry in Delhi University has been posted the new Vice Chancellor of Pondicherry University.

    Gurmeet Singh is new VC of Pondy University
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    Gurmeet Singh

    Puducherry

    A communication in this regard was received to the University on Friday from the Department of Higher Education

    in the Union HRD Ministry, a release from the university said. Singh is the seventh Vice Chancellor of the University which was set up in 1985. In another development, the university has inked an MoU with the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) of the UGC to meet the needs of higher education through multimedia, TV and emerging information communication technologies.

    The MOU would pave the way for the development of infrastructure facilities to create multimedia educational content and also provide guidance and technical support to access the institutions through digital facility.

    The MOU also envisaged integration of the digital learning with conventional learning in higher education, Assistant Registrar of the university K Mahesh said in arelease here.

    The officiating Vice Chancellor of the University Anisa Basheer Khan and the Director of the CEC Rajbir Singh inked the MOU recently. The CEC would provide e-resources and open educational resources.

    The University would provide the infrastructure including high end server and an adequate number terminals and LAN networking to set up the digital lounge in the University’s central library.

    Students can access the content through their mobile phones as well and the e-resources would be used only for academic and research purposes, the release added.

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