Ashok Mittal is Agra university VC

AGRA: Governor of

Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel

appointed senior professor of Economics

Ashok Mittal

as the vice-chancellor of

Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University

on Tuesday. Mittal is currently serving as a professor in Economics in the Aligarh Muslim University.

A former student of

Agra university

, professor Mittal has a teaching experience of 46 years and research experience of 36 years. He will be replacing Arvind Kumar Dixit as the 41st VC of Agra university.

According to the official announcement made by the Raj Bhavan, Mittal will be serving for a duration of three years after taking charge as the VC.

Professor Mittal completed his PhD in 1987 from Banaras Hindu University. His research and teaching areas of interest are Macroeconomics, Public Finance and Econometrics. He did MA (Economics) and BSc (Mathematics and Statistics) from Agra University.

At present, he is the vice-president of Uttar Pradesh - Uttarakhand Economic Association.


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