Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice-Chancellor Tariq Mansoor resigned from the put up on Tuesday, an afternoon after he turned into nominated as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. Pro Vice-Chancellor Mohammad Gulrez will officiate because the Vice-Chancellor until Mansoor`s successor is appointed, a notification issued through AMU Registrar Mohammad Imran stated.
According to a notification issued through Chandrashekhar, Special Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh past due on Monday night, Mansoor is amongst six human beings nominated through the Governor as MLCs towards 8 vacancies.
In an open letter to college college students and workforce on Monday, Mansoor stated, “As I demit workplace, that is the final time I cope with you because the Vice-Chancellor. I had the possibility of serving the organization for 6 years all through desirable and hard times.” He thanked the AMU network for status through him all through this time, mainly in dealing with the demanding situations posed through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Having studied, taught, served and led the college for such a lot of memorable years, I am full of feelings so that you can all the time continue to be an necessary a part of me,” stated Mansoor, who graduated in remedy from AMU and later joined Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College as a teacher.
“As the united states of america enters the direction of ‘New India’ and is poised to play a critical function in global affairs, I am assured that AMU will preserve to play a distinguished function withinside the challenge of country building,” he stated. The resignation of Mansoor, 66, who hails from Aligarh, got here weeks earlier than his tenure turned into to end.
He assumed workplace because the Vice-Chancellor of AMU on May 17, 2017, for a length of 5 years. His time period turned into to result in May 2022, however amid extraordinary instances winning withinside the wake of the pandemic, the Centre prolonged his tenure through one year.
Senior AMU officers stated the process for deciding on the following vice-chancellor “has now no longer even begun”. Mansoor’s departure ought to mark a length of “uncertainty” considering that below everyday instances, the incumbent vice-chancellor presides over the method of choosing his successor, they stated.