Friday, Mar 24, 2023 03:45 [IST]
Last Update: Thursday, Mar 23, 2023 22:02 [IST]
SILIGURI,: Kalimpong-born professor PremPoddar has once again been appointed as
Vice Chancellor (VC) of Darjeeling Hills University. The interim appointment is
for three months.
Poddar
will take the charge of the post from Friday morning. On Thursday, he met Om
Prakash Mishra, the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of North Bengal University
at the university office.
Poddar
will also meet Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) chairman AnitThapa
before resuming his office at Mangpoo.
Speaking
with media persons at NBU,Poddar said, “There are lots of things to do, I have
to take the charge of history, look into the files. This university has been
taking care by Subires Bhattacharya and Om Prakash Mishra earlier. It has been
very fluctuating, temporarily, transitory kind of situation now and I am also
in that kind of situation as I have been in a post for only three months. Let’s
see, we will look at the priorities what can be done, if I am allowed to, I
would like to do lots of things. We don’t have the blueprint right now, the
campus has to be develop a lot.”
Poddar
was a professor in Cultural Encounters at Rosklide University in Denmark. He
has been a Humboldt Senior Fellow, AHRC Fellow at Southampton and Carlsberg
Fellow at Cambridge University. He has taught in India, Britain, and Denmark as
Associate Professor in Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of many articles
and books including Violent Civilities (2002) and Postkolonial
Contra-modernitet: Immigration, Identitet, Historie (2004).
Darjeeling
Hills University is a public State university in Mangpoo and the university was
established in 2021 under The Greenfield University Act, 2018.
