Prof. Yash Pal
Chancellor
 

Eminent physicist Prof. Yash Pal has been appointed as Chancellor of  Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prof. Yash Pal takes over as Chancellor from Dr. Karan Singh.

The former Chairman of the University Grants Commission said that his  vision for the university during his five-year-term would be same as the one Jawaharlal Nehru had for the varsity. He emphasized that he was more a student himself at the university than its Chancellor.

Prof. Yash Pal, responsible for setting up the first satellite education system in the country, was born in Pakistan and his family migrated to Delhi during Partition.

He spent some 25 years as a research scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. Later, he moved to US where he worked on nuclear projects. He returned to India and headed the satellite education programme started by space scientist Vikram Sarabhai at the Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.