Saket Kushwaha (born 28 August 1963) is an Indian educationist and Agricultural economist. He is serving as

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(VC) of University of Ladakh and is former

of Rajiv Gandhi University,

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and

Lalit Narayan Mithila University The Lalit Narayan Mithila University (LNMU), formerly Mithila University, is a public university in India. Beginning in 1972, the university initially functioned from the Mohanpur House at Sara Mohanpur village on the Darbhanga-Sakri route. I ...

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. He is a

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Agricultural Economics Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specif ...

at the

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, ''on lien''.

Early life and education

Kushwaha was born on 28 August 1963 in Bhimsen, Kanpur,

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. His father, Surendra Singh Kushwaha, was

in the

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department of

and also served as VC of Ranchi University,

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and

Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith is a public university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Established on 10 February 1921 as Kashi Vidyapith and later renamed, it is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pra ...

. and his sister Nirmala S Maurya is a first women

of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur,

who served the office from August 2020 till August 2023.Saket Kushwaha has B.Sc in Agriculture (1983) and an M.Sc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1992) in

from

Career

Kushwaha has served as the dean of the School of Management at Federal University of Technology Bauchi, Nigeria from 1993 to 2006. In 2006 he joined as

. In 2014 he was appointed

Vice-Chancellor A vice-chancellor (commonly called a VC) serves as the chief executive of a university in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Kenya, other Commonwealth of Nati ...

where he served until 2017. From 2017 to 2018 he served as

-in-charge for Rajiv Gandhi South Campus

. In October 2018 he was appointed

of Rajiv Gandhi University where he served till October 2024. He currently serves as

of the University of Ladakh from February 2025 onwards.

References

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