ET Plus Report
Jammu, Mar 20 : The President of India in his capacity as the visitor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been pleased to appoint Prof. Mohd Aslam, School of Continuing Education, IGNOU as the Vice-Chancellor for the period of five years.
The other major contender for the post of Vice-Chancellor was Prof. Sanjay G Dhande, former Director IIT Kanpur. Prof. Aslam has M.A. in Sociology with First Division and SecondPosition, he got his M.Phil, in 1975 and Ph.D. (Sociology) in 1978. He functioned as Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU from October, 2011 to July, 2012. Earlier he was Director, SOCE, at IGNOU since January, 2009. He is Professor of Rural Development, School of Continuing Education (SOCE), IGNOU since May, 1992 and served as Director, National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education, IGNOU from Dec, 2006-Feb., 2009 and also earlier as Director, SOCE, IGNOU from May 1998-May,2001. He served as Director (Trg) at the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia & the Pacific based in Dhaka for 8 years. Prof. M. Aslam has rich and varied experience both at national and international levels in University Administration; Distance and Continuing Education; ICT, Communication and Extension; Multi-Media in Distance Education; Training Methodology; Rural Development; Training skills; Monitoring and Evaluation; Panchayati Raj and Social Change from his 35 years career in the field, out of which he spent about 21 years as a Professor at IGNOU. |
