Tata Sons’ Chandra elected IISc President

“Chandrasekaran has been elected as the 8th President of the institute for the period 2018-21 and takes over from K Kasturirangan,” said the city-based institute in a statement here. The court is the apex body of the autonomous and deemed university, comprising its senior academics, officials of the central and Karnataka governments, industry and civil society. 

Sir M Visvesvaraya, JRD Tata and Ratan Tata were among those who occupied the distinguished post of the 109-year-old institute in the past. Kasturirangan is the former Chairman, ISRO and a former Rajya Sabha member.