Ex-DGP Ashok Kumar appointed Sports University of Haryana’s VC

Tribune News Service

Panipat, February 28

Uttarakhand’s former Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Kumar has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Sports University of Haryana.

SS Deswal, former DGP, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), was the first VC of the university. He had joined in December, 2022, and was appointed as the VC till December, 2025. But, he resigned from the post a few days ago. Ashok Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer, hailing from Kurana village of Panipat district, would join as the VC on March 1. He did his Class X from the village government school and Class XII from the Hindu College (Sonepat). He pursued Mechanical Engineering and post-graduation from IIT-Delhi and then joined the IPS services and got UP cadre.

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