Yogesh Kumar Tyagi, former dean and professor, Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, assumed charge as 22nd vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi on Thursday, over four months after h
Yogesh Kumar Tyagi, former dean and professor, Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, assumed charge as 22nd vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi on Thursday, over four months after his predecessor Dinesh Singh demitted office.
Prof. Tyagi was welcomed by varsity officials, led by pro vice-chancellor Sudhish Pachauri, who had been the acting vice-chancellor since October.
Addressing the gathering, Prof. Tyagi said he wished to work for the university by taking all the stakeholders on board and said everybody’s views would be taken before arriving at any decision. “I am not saying there will be no mistakes, but rest assured there will be no dishonesty.”
Prof. Tyagi said he was very positive and would invite ideas in making the university better. “I completed all my pending courses with students at the SAU and did everything possible to satisfy their expectations from me, everyone is very mature there. Some work is still left, but that would be managed.” Former vice-chancellors of various universities, including former DU V-Cs Upendra Baxi and Deepak Pental, Jamia vice-chancellor Talat Ahmed, Gujarat Central University vice-chancellor H.C. Patel, Lucknow Law University vice-chancellor Gurdip Singh and former Jammu University vice-chancellor Amitabh Mattoo welcomed Prof. Tyagi to the Delhi University.
Prof. Tyagi was sent a communication by Union ministry of human resources development on his appointment nearly a month ago, but he had asked for some time in order to “settle his responsibilities” at SAU. He has been appointed as the Delhi University vice-chancellor for a term of five years after his name was chosen from a panel of four persons by President Pranab Mukherjee, who is the Visitor of all Central universities. Apart from Prof. Tyagi, others shortlisted for the post were JNU professor Rameshwar Nath Kaul Bamezai, former IIT professor and UPSC member Hemchand Gupta and Bidyut Chakraborty, a professor in DU’s political science department.
Prof. Tyagi has a Ph.D. in legal studies from JNU and LL.M. in legal studies from Columbia University, will have to clear the confusion over the grading mechanism under choice-based credit system. Various issues, including promotion and appointment of teachers, decision on the reservation policy and the CBCS took a backseat with the vice-chancellor’s post lying vacant for over four months.
