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Sachidananda Mohanty, a noted academician and present Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Orissa has been nominated as a member for Commission on Education for UNESCO by the President of India.
The tenure of the membership is for four years. Set up in 1949, the functions of the Commission is to promote understanding the objects and purposes of UNESCO among the Republic of India, to serve as liaison agency between the Govt. of India and the institutions concerned with the working for the advancement of education, science and culture.
Mohanty, who has been at the faculty of English, University of Hyderabad for over two decades has been nominated to as an individual member with other notable educationist of India.
Other institutional members include Chairman, UGC; Chairman, AICTE, Secretary General, AIU; Director, NCERT; Chairman, NCTE; Chairperson, NBA; Director, NAAC; Chairperson, CBSE and other eminent academicians, a press release from the University of Hyderabad said.
He is the recipient of several national and international awards including those from the British Council, the Salzburg, the Katha and the Fulbright. He has to his credit 26 books in English and in Odia.
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