Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan has extended Panjab University VC Renu Vig’s tenure from March 29, while setting up a three-member all-women search-cum-selection panel to identify her successor. The committee will submit 3–5 names. Vig became the varsity’s first woman VC in 2023 after initially serving as acting VC.

New Delhi: Vice President CP Radhakrishnan, who is the Chancellor of Panjab University in Chandigarh, has approved an extension to Vice Chancellor Renu Vig while also setting up a three-member search-cum-selection committee to identify her successor, according to officials.

The extension will be effective from March 29, a day after her three-year tenure concludes.

"The all-woman committee will be chaired by retired Lt Gen Madhuri Kanitkar, VC of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in Nashik; with Shashikala Wanjari, VC of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) in New Delhi, and Vibha Tandon, director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, as members," an education ministry official said.

The panel has been directed to submit a list of three to five names to the chancellor as soon as possible.