RK Shevgaonkar

He has an engineering background, plays the sitar as a hobby and has not had much association with the University of Pune (UoP) except for occasional visits when he has served as an external examiner, conducted vivas for PhD students or given lectures at seminars and conferences. But that isn’t going to stop RK Shevgaonkar, the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the UoP, to bring about some much-needed changes in the functioning of this learning institution.

His first reaction to the announcement of his appointment was: