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President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday appointed Professor Tariq Mansoor as Vice-Chancellor of prestigious Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Mansoor will succeed Lt Gen (retd) Zameeruddin Shah, who will retire on May 17. Mansoor is currently, the principal of AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. He has been associated with the university for more than three deacdes.
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.