Gandaki, July 8: The Gandaki Provincial Government has appointed a new leadership team to the Gandaki Academy, filling positions that had remained vacant for the past 14 months.
Chief Minister Surendra Raj Pandey on Tuesday appointed noted folklorist Prof. Dr. Kusumakar Neupane as Chancellor for a four-year term.
A native of Parbat district, Neupane recently retired as Head of the Nepali Department at Prithvi Narayan Campus in Pokhara.
The government also appointed Shankar Birahi Gurung of Syangja district as Vice-Chancellor and Man Kumar Shrestha of Tanahun district as Member Secretary, the Ministry of Social Development, Youth and Sports said.
Furthermore, 21 members from districts across Gandaki Province have been nominated to the Academy Assembly.
The appointments end a prolonged leadership vacuity that followed the expiry of the previous office-bearers’ four-year tenure in April this year.
The Academy had received 95 applications for the it’s key posts.
