India, Oct. 28 -- Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, the former Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Odisha (CUO), breathed his last on October 27 (Tuesday).

Mohanty (70) had been appointed as a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) some days ago. He had served as the VC of CUO in Koraput for around four years.

As per reports, Mohanty had been appointed as the CUO VC in August 2015. He had resigned from his post on personal grounds in February 2019.

Mohanty had studied MA in English at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). He had also served as a professor and Head of the Department of English at UoH.

Over a career of more than three decades, Mohanty went on to serve as Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Odisha, Sri...