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PROF NILOFER APPOINTED AS FIRST WOMAN VC, KU

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 5/20/2022 3:22:39 PM

Srinagar, May 19 Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday appointed Prof Nilofer Khan, Home Science department professor, as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kashmir. Khan is the first woman to be vice chancellor of the Kashmir University. Khan will replace earth-scientist Prof Talat Ahmad whose three-year term ended in August 2021. “In exercise of the powers vested in me under Section 12 of the Kashmir and Jammu Universities Act, 1969, I Manoj Sinha, Chancellor, University of Kashmir, hereby appoint Professor Nilofer Khan, Professor, Department of Home Sciences, University of Kashmir, as Vice Chancellor of the University of Kashmir for a period of three (03) years with effect from the date she takes over the charge,” a communication issued by the Lieutenant Governor’s Secretariat said this afternoon. It said that the terms and conditions will be notified separately.