Our Great Malayali director for AICTE

KOTTAYAM: Dr K Sree Krishna Kumar, Director, School of Technology and Applied Sciences (STAS), Mahatma Gandhi University, has been appointed the Director of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

Dr Sree Krishna Kumar, who has 17 years of post graduate teaching experience and 11 years of administrative experience by vide of positions held in the LBS, IHRDE and M G University, has been appointed in the AICTE on deputation basis. The 45-year-old Sreekrishna Kumar is the youngest and is the only Malayalee to adorn the top post in the national body till date.

AICTE has wide ranging powers in the control and curriculum formation for technical education in the country.

A native of Chettikulangara, Mavelikkara, SreeKrishna Kumar is the son of retired teachers’ N Krishnan Nair and K Janaki Amma. His wife Dr M S Latha is a lecturer in the SN College, Chengannur.