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Badri Narayan Tiwari Confirmed as TISS’s First Government-Appointed Vice-Chancellor

The move finalizes TISS’s shift to a central governance model that replaces its Tata Trust-appointed governing council with a Ministry-led executive council.

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Professor Badri Narayan Tiwari takes charge as VC of TISS

Overview

  • The Ministry of Education issued an order on July 30 confirming Prof Badri Narayan Tiwari as the first vice-chancellor of TISS appointed under new UGC regulations.
  • He relinquished his role as director of the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute to assume the TISS vice-chancellorship and brings extensive research credentials in social history, cultural anthropology and Dalit studies.
  • The appointment concludes a seven-month search during which over 120 candidates applied and 10 were shortlisted by the Ministry.
  • UGC rules now require the central government to appoint heads of deemed universities that receive over 50% of their funding from the government.
  • The governance overhaul replaces TISS’s Tata Trust-appointed governing council with an executive council chaired by the government-appointed vice-chancellor.