Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha

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Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian
Education Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Master of Engineering
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Chancellor and president, RB University, Nagpur, and adjunct professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
AwardsSKOCH Award
Honours Honorary Doctorate Degree, Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa)

Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha, commonly known as S. S. Mantha, is an Indian academic and administrator based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He currently serves as the Chancellor and President of RB University, Nagpur, [1] [2] and is an adjunct professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. [3] He is also the former chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body and a national level council for technical education under the Department of Higher Education established in 1945, [4] [5] and has served as president of the National Board of Accreditation [6] and deputy vice-chancellor of the SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. [7] [8] He also served as the chancellor of KL University and was the CEO of MahaPreit StartUp Knowledge Centre (MSKC), Mumbai. [9] [10] He heads the National Technical Committee, National Cyber Safety, and Security Standards (NSSSC). [3]

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He has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree, Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka in 2012 and by D Y Patil International University, Maharashtra in 2014. [3]

Early life

Mantha was born and grew up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering from VJTI, Mumbai. [7] [8]

He also holds a PhD in combustion modeling from the University of Mumbai. [11]

Career

Mantha, who was the vice chairman at All India Council for Technical Education, was given the additional charge of chairman in 2009, when the then chairman RA Yadav was suspended by the Union HRD ministry due to corruption charges. [12] [13] [7] Mantha was later appointed as the chairman of AICTE in 2012, where he spent six years conceiving and implementing e-governance reforms to allow for a transparent administration [14] [15] and created the regulations for the Blended Learning Paradigm and the regulations for Twinning Programs in Engineering and Technology. [16] [17] [18]

Mantha was Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute. [19] [15] On his retirement, he continued to serve VJTI as professor emeritus. [8]

He has advised the National e-governance division (NeGD) and the Government of Maharashtra on IT initiatives including the Citizen Facilitation Centre of Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation [4] [16] and contributed to Indian accreditation system to be a part of the Washington accord. [20]

He was instrumental in creating the National Vocational Education Qualification Framework which was later re-christened the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF). [21] [16]

He has more than 280 publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings [22] and has contributed over 250 articles on education and administration to publications, including The Indian Express, [23] LiveMint, [24] Lokmat, [25] and Businessworld, [26] among others [27] [28]

Awards and recognition

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