New VC of Berhampur University eyes academic progress

Discipline and development will be the buzz words on the Berhampur University campus as Deepak Behera will take over as the new vice-chancellor tomorrow. “My priority would be to maintain co-ordination among the students, employees and the faculty members and put the university on the track of academic progress,” Behera, who was serving as a professor of anthropology at Sambalpur University prior to this appointment, told The Telegraph over phone. Behera had been teaching at Sambalpur University since 1985 and published more than 70 research-oriented articles in various journals and magazines. Outgoing vice-chancellor Jayant Kumar Mahapatra said that during his three-year term since July 2010, discipline had strictly been maintained on the Bhanja Bihar campus. “There was not a single strike in this period. I carried out a series of academic reforms, including restructuring of UGC-NET syllabus, non-negotiable exam calendar and publication of results within 45 days,” he said. Students of Berhampur University, apart from teaching and non-teaching employees, described Mahapatra’s term as the “golden period” of the university. Source: The Telegraph