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The Kerala Lok Bhavan appointed Mavoothu Duraipandi, Professor and erstwhile Director, School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), arsenic the Vice-Chancellor in-charge of Mahatma Gandhi University connected Monday (June 1, 2026).
The determination follows the status of Prof., who had been serving arsenic the university’s Vice-Chancellor successful a impermanent capableness since the status of erstwhile Vice Chancellor Prof. Sabu Thomas successful May 2023.
A autochthonal of Tamil Nadu, Prof. Mavoothu presently serves arsenic the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences astatine CUSAT and the Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies astatine Kerala University. He holds an MBA from Madurai Kamaraj University and a PhD from CUSAT.
He volition clasp complaint of the Vice-Chancellor’s bureau until a regular assignment is made. Sources bespeak that the State authorities had not forwarded immoderate proposal oregon sheet of candidates to the Lok Bhavan for the assignment of an interim Vice-Chancellor.
