Lucknow, July 16 -- Lucknow University vice-chancellor professor Alok Kumar Rai has been appointed as the new director of Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C).
President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Prof. Alok Kumar Rai as Director of IIM-C under Section 16 (2) of the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017 (amended in 2023).
It is for the first time in the history of Lucknow University that any vice-chancellor is joining a central institute like IIM. It's also a rare instance when a non-IIM professor is appointed as the IIM director.
IIM-C did not have a regular full-term director for nearly two years.
Prior to his Lucknow University assignment, Rai served as a professor of management at the Banaras Hindu Unive...