V. C. Kulandaiswamy

V C Kulandaiswamy
1st Vice Chancellor of the Tamil Virtual University
Incumbent
Assumed office
2001
Vice Chancellor
of the Anna University
In office
1981–1990
2nd Vice Chancellor
Indira Gandhi National Open University
In office
1990–1994
Preceded by G. Ram Reddy
Succeeded by Ram G Takwale
Vice Chairman
Institute of Asian Studies
Personal details
Born 14 July 1929 (1929-07-14) (age 82)
Vangalampalayam, Karur district, Tamil Nadu India
Spouse(s) K. Soundaravalli
Profession Academician
Religion Hindu

V C Kulandaiswamy (born 14 July 1929 at Vangalampalayam village in Karur district, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian academic and author. He obtained his Master of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur and obtained a Ph.D in hydrology and water resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States).[1][2][3][4]

Career

Kulandaisamy is currently the Chairman of Tamil Virtual University[1]. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Anna University (Chennai) from 1981 to 1990. From 1990 to 1994, he was Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a national university with a current enrollment of 3.5 million students, which was founded to impart education by means of distance learning and open education.

Kulandaiswamy created an eponymous mathematical model for the rainfall-runoff relationship based on a general equation developed by him. Kulandaiswamy was a member of the UNESCO planning group (1978) for the preparation of the second six-year plan (1981–86) of the International Hydraulic Programme (IHP). He has authored more than 60 research reports and papers in the field of hydrology. He has authored six volumes of poems and seven of prose essays which earned him the Thiruvalluvar Award by Tamil Nadu government in 1999.

Awards

He has received the Padma Bhushan (2002) and Padma Shri (1992), awarded by the President of India to recognize service to the nation in the fields of education and engineering. He also received the Sahitya Akademi Award, a literary honor conferred by the Sahitya Akademy, India's National Academy of Letters, on outstanding writers in India's national languages. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for a Tamil literary work - Vazhum Valluvam. He has also received 7 honorary doctorates in recognition of his contributions to Tamil literature and the field of education.

References

  1. ^ KSOU VC criticises remarks of Kulandaiswamy
  2. ^ 12,000 completion certificates pending with varsity: V-C
  3. ^ Association of private managements welcomes bid to upgrade colleges
  4. ^ China, India powerhouses for growth: Zhang Yan
G. Ram Reddy · V. C. Kulandaiswamy · Ram G. Takwale · A W Khan · H P Dikshit · V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai
1955-1975

R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) · Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) · C. Rajagopalachari (1958) · Mu. Varadarajan (1961) · Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) · Akilan (1963) · P. Sri Acharya (1965) · Ma. Po. Si. (1966) · K. V. Jagannathan (1967) · A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) · Bharatidasan (1969) · Ku. Alagirisami (1970) · Na. Parthasarathy (1971) · D. Jayakanthan (1972) · Rajam Krishnan (1973) · K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) · R. Dhandayudham (1975) ·
1976-2000

Indira Parthasarathy (1977) · Vallikannan (1978) · Thi.Janakiraman (1979) · Kannadasan (1980) · M. Ramalingam (1981) · B. S. Ramaiya (1982) · T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983) · Lakshmi Thiripurasundari (1984) · A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985) · Ka. Naa. Subramaniam (1986) · Aadhavan Sundaram (1987) · V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988) · La Sa Ra (1989) · Su. Samuthiram (1990) · Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991) · Kovi. Manisekaran (1992) · M. V. Venkatram (1993) · Ponneelan (1994) · Prapanchan (1995) · Ashoka Mitran (1996) · Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997) · Sa. Kandasamy (1998) · S. Abdul Rahman (1999) · Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)
2001-present

C. S. Chellappa (2001) · Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) · Vairamuthu (2003) · Tamilanban (2004) · G. Thilakavathi (2005) · Mu. Metha (2006) · Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) · Puviarasu (2009) · Nanjil Nadan (2010) · Su. Venkatesan (2011) ·