Today Prof. Gopinath Pradhan has taken over the charge of new Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). He was the Director of School of Social Sciences (SOSS) of the university since the year 2010. Pradhan joined IGNOU in the year 1993 as a Reader in Economics and became a Professor in 1998. 60-year-old Prof.
Pradhan is a Professor of Economics who completed his MA and Ph.D. in the subject from Odisha’s Sambalpur University in the year 1975 and 1984 respectively. His areas of specializations are Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Public Economics and Quantitative Economics.
