JOWAI: OR Challam, the president of Sein Raij Jowai, has been chosen as the visitor to the Board of Management, Tezpur University.
Challam is a retired associate professor and Head of the History Department at Kiang Nangbah Government College. He is the first among Khasi-Pnar from Meghalaya to be nominated by the President as visitor to any University in the North East.
Challam was also nominated as the Official member of the National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Education for three years with effect from August 2017.
The committee is headed by Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar as the chairman and his two ministers of State Mahindra Nath Pandey and Upendra Kushwaha as members, besides ex-officis members,
which include education ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Gujrat and Tamil Nadu.
Besides Challam, three others were nominated as visitors of the Board.
They are Abhijit Nath, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at GC College, Silchar, Dr Thiyam David Singh, Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department of Basic Science and Humanities National Institute of Technology in Manipur, and Bimal Shankar Nanda, Associate Professor Political Science Department of Charu Chandra College.
