India, Oct. 4 -- The state's higher and technical education department on Wednesday appointed professor Him Chatterjee as the first full-time vice chancellor (VC) of the Sir J.J. School of Arts, Architecture and Design in Mumbai.

Chatterjee currently serves as the chairman of Department of Visual Arts at Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla and is expected to take charge as the VC of Sir J.J. School of Arts, Architecture and Design on Monday. The institute had until now been under the charge of professor Rajnish Kamat, vice chancellor of Homi Bhabha State University, since March 2024.

To select the new Vice Chancellor, the state government had constituted a committee chaired by Professor Manoj Dixit, vice chancellor of Maharaja Ganga S...