Najma Akhthar has been appointed by Centre as vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia. She will be the first woman vice-chancellor in Jamia’s four -decade-old history. President Ram Nath Kovind has also approved the appointment of Sanjiv Sharma as the new VC of Mahatma Gandhi Central University in Motihari, Bihar and Rajaneesh Kumar Shukla as VC of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya in Wardha, Maharashtra.The ministry of human resource development took the consent of the Election Commission of India on April 5 to appoint the VCs for the three central universities.