India, March 19 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday appointed Probir Kumar Ghosh as the vice-chancellor (VC) of Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal.

The development comes more than 16 months after the tenure of former VC Bidyut Chakrabarty, ended in November 2023.

Visva-Bharati was set up by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Bolpur in Birbhum in 1921. It is the only central university in West Bengal.

The letters sent to Visva-Bharati by the Union ministry of education stated that Ghosh is the former director and VC of Indian Council of Agricultural Research -National Institute of Biotic Stress Management at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. Ghosh was appointed as the VC for a term of five years.

Ghosh, 62, studied at Visva-Bharti bet...