India, Jan. 13 -- JNU Vice Chancellor (VC) Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Monday said the university administration has restored academic excellence, completed historic faculty recruitment and made inclusive and transparent promotions. Pandit further said the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has raised a Rs 70-crore corpus fund.

Speaking at the 9th convocation ceremony of the central university here, Pandit said since its inception in 1969, the JNU has expanded to 14 schools, nine special centres and various other programmes.

"The university now runs 80 PhD programmes, 49 master's-level programmes, 13 bachelor's-level programmes, seven certificate courses, three diplomas, and one PG (post-graduate) diploma," the VC said, adding that th...