Berhampur, July 30: 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.