By OUR STAFF REPORTER
DEHRADUN, 27 Feb: Alaknanda Ashok, currently Director of Women’s Institute of Technology (WIT) in Dehradun, has been appointed Dean, College of Technology, at GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology (GBPUAT). According to the Selection Board sources, she has been promoted as Dean in view of her commendable work at WIT, Dehradun. She was given this responsibility after clearing the selection process involving several stages. It is noteworthy that GBPUAT is one of the most prestigious agriculture and technology universities in the country. It may be recalled that Alaknanda Ashok, wife of DG, Law & Order, Uttarakhand, Ashok Kumar, had joined in Dehradun as Director of WIT in 2015. While at WIT, she took some major and tough decisions like staff retrenchment and installation of biometric attendance for the staff and had to face a lot of resistance and even court cases for these decisions.
