Suranjan Das (in picture), Jadavpur University vice-chancellor who completed 65 years on June 23, was reappointed as the university’s vice-chancellor. Telegraph file pictureThe Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill raising the retirement age of university vice-chancellors from 65 to 70. The West Bengal University Laws (Amendment) Bill 2019 aims at revising the acts of all the 28 state-aided universities where the “upper age limit of retirement” of vice-chancellors is fixed at 65. The retirement age of the university heads is being raised to 70 so that institutes can retain the experienced academics, a higher education department official said. Suranjan Das, Jadavpur University vice-chancellor who completed 65 years on June 23, was reappointed as the university’s vice-chancellor.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2019 21:21 UTC