? Ministry of Education (MoE) has appointed Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as the new Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on February 7, 2022.  ? She is the first women Vice-Chancellor of JNU ? The 59-year-old Pandit has been appointed for a period of five years. ? Pandit replaces M Jagadesh Kumar, who has been appointed as Chairman of the University Grants  Commission (UGC) ? Before this appointment, Pandit was serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Savitribai Phule University in  Maharashtra.