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Silchar, June 9: The Centre has appointed Somnath Dasgupta, currently the director of Allahabad University’s National Centre of Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology, as the vice-chancellor of Assam Central University’s Dargakona campus, 24km south of here.
Dasgupta will assume charge next week from the current vice-chancellor, Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, a former professor of Bengali literature, whose five-year term expired on March 27 this year.
Dasgupta, 60, has a 34-year career as a scientist and teacher in applied geology, during which he has taught in many national and overseas universities and in research.
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