The launch of the university was done virtually on Thursday by Roshni Nadar Malhotra, the Chairperson of HCL Technologies and Trustee in Shiv Nadar Foundation. R Srinivasan and Kala Vijayakumar were also present in the event.
The Shiv Nadar Foundation has announced a formation of a university in Chenna . The Shiv Nadar University will come up in Kalavakkam, and will start admitting students from April 2021.
As per a press statement, the university will have four specialised courses in the fields of engineering and commerce.
R Srinivasan (Chairman, SSN Institutions) will be the Chancellor of the institution and Kala Vijayakumar (President, SSN Institutions) has been appointed as the Pro Chancellor. Shiv Nadar University is the first private university to be formed through a 2018-legislation passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly after Annamalai University, the statement said.
The university will have eminent personalities like C Rangarajan (former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India) and Raj Reddy (Turing Award-winning computer scientist and Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University) as mentors.
The launch of the university was done virtually on Thursday by Roshni Nadar Malhotra, the Chairperson of HCL Technologies and Trustee in Shiv Nadar Foundation. R Srinivasan and Kala Vijayakumar were also present in the event.
“My father, Mr Shiv Nadar, is a product of education and strongly believes in its power to transform people’s lives. The Shiv Nadar Foundation was created with this vision and has established institutions offering world-class education to contribute to nation building...We are, therefore, thrilled to set up a world-class private university in Chennai that has been envisioned with a core raison d’etre of moving beyond disseminating knowledge. Shiv Nadar University Chennai will be a catalyst for new research, novel discoveries and creation of new forms of expression…eventually helping create responsible, well rounded citizens,” Roshni Nadar Malhotra said during the launch.
