After appointing directors to 10 IIMs at one shot, the government may be close to clearing appointments for as many as 12 NITs. There are several names doing the rounds for these top jobs. It is said the HRD Ministry has shortlisted Prof N S Raghuvanshi of IIT-Kharagpur as director of NIT-Bhopal and Dr Pradeep Kumar Jain of IIT-Varanasi for NIT-Uttarakhand. Prof Pradeep Kumar Garg, vice-chancellor of Uttarakhand Technical University, is the top contender for directorship at NIT-Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, while Prof K Umamaheshwar Rao of IIT-Kharagpur is learnt to be in the running for the top job at NIT-Surathkal in Karnataka.
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By IndianMandarins - 2017-02-21 08:00:46
After appointing directors to 10 IIMs at one shot, the government may be close to clearing appointments for as many as 12 NITs. There are several names doing the rounds for these top jobs. It is said the HRD Ministry has shortlisted Prof N S Raghuvanshi of IIT-Kharagpur as director of NIT-Bhopal and Dr Pradeep Kumar Jain of IIT-Varanasi for NIT-Uttarakhand. Prof Pradeep Kumar Garg, vice-chancellor of Uttarakhand Technical University, is the top contender for directorship at NIT-Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, while Prof K Umamaheshwar Rao of IIT-Kharagpur is learnt to be in the running for the top job at NIT-Surathkal in Karnataka.
