{"id":52510,"date":"2026-08-06T22:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52510"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:45:34","slug":"university-grants-commission-chair-kc-takes-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/university-grants-commission-chair-kc-takes-oath-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"University Grants Commission Chair KC takes oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 6: Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, has administered oath of the office and secrecy to the newly-appointed Chairperson of University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof Dr Khadga Bahadur KC.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Pokharel administered the oath of office to the Chairperson KC at a programme organized at the Ministry of Education and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chairperson KC administered oath of office and secrecy to UGC Secretary Prof Dr Roji Shrestha.<\/p>\n<p>After the swearing-in, Minister Pokharel urged the UGC authority to perform keeping enhancement of higher education quality, reforms in the university and restructuring of institutions at the center.<\/p>\n<p>The minister expressed the commitment to provide necessary policy and administrative facilitation from the ministry for the university reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Newly-appointed Chairperson KC also pledged to perform placing policy and structural reforms of the university in priority.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Secretary Shrestha said she would exert all-out efforts for university reforms by enhancing further effectiveness of the UGC during her tenure.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that the cabinet meeting on Wednesday had decided to appoint Prof Dr KC as Chair and Prof Dr Shrestha as Secretary of the UGC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 6: Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, has administered oath of the office and secrecy to the newly-appointed Chairperson of University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof Dr Khadga Bahadur KC. Minister Pokharel administered the oath of office to the Chairperson KC at a programme organized at the Ministry of Education and Sports. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52513,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510\/revisions\/52513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}