Dr. Harshad A Patel has been appointed as the 17th Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Viyapith. Chancellor and Governor of Gujarat, Acharya Devvrat made this appointment.
Dr. Patel is presently the Trustee of Gujarat Vidyapith. He has been involved in the field of education for the last 25 years. He is Vice Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Teacher Education and also an inchrge Vice Chancellor of Children’s University. A son of a farmer, Dr. Patel had connected over one and a half lakh youths to Mahatma Gandhi’s Mahavrats on the 150th birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi, under the ‘Bapu School Mein’ campaign. Dr. Patel’s name was chosen by Chancellor Devvrat from a list of three names suggested by the selection committee.