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Governance

Decentralised. Empowering. Responsible, Responsive.

Teaching Staff
400+
Non-Teaching Staff
1200
Students
5000

The University of Hyderabad, a premier institution of post-graduate teaching and research in the country, was established by an Act of Parliament (Act No. 39 of 1974) on October 02, 1974 as a Central University.

The “objects of the University” as envisaged in the Act are:

“to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and by the example of its corporate life, and in particular to make special provisions for integrated courses in humanities and science in the educational programmes of the University and to take appropriate measures for promoting inter-disciplinary studies and research in the University.”
— The University of Hyderabad Act, 1974

Members of the Executive Council of the University

Executive Council
Sl. No.Name
1.Prof. J. Anuradha
Vice-Chancellor i/C
Chairman
2.Prof. Jai Prakash Gautam
Dean, School of Engineering Sciences & Technology
Member
3.Prof. Saroj Panigrahi
Dean, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Member
4.Prof. Anand K. Kondapi
Dean, School of Life Sciences
Member
5.Prof. M. Samba Siva Raju
Dean, S.N. School of Arts and Communication
Member
6.Prof. J. Anuradha
Department of Dance, S.N. School of Arts and Communication
Senior most Professor
7.Dr. C. George Tharakan
Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences
Senior most Associate Professor
8.Dr. Abhijeet Joshi
Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities
Senior most Assistant Professor
9.Prof. Manisha Sharma
Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, IGNTU, Amarkantak
Visitor’s Nominee
10.Prof. Pravesh Kumar Srivastava
D/o AIHC & Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Visitor’s Nominee
11.Prof. Vandana Mishra
Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi
Visitor’s Nominee
12.Prof. E. Sujatha
Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad
Visitor’s Nominee
13.Shri B. Srinivas
Finance Officer
Special Invitee
14.Dr. Devesh Nigam
Registrar
Ex-officio-Secretary

Organisational Chart

Organisational chart of the University of Hyderabad: Visitor, Rector, Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellors at the top, followed by the Registrar and Finance Officer and the administrative sections under them. (open full-size image in a new tab)
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