nagpur chancellor ch vidyasagar rao on saturday appointed ashish motiram paturkar as the new vice chancellor of the maharashtra animal and fishery sciences university mafsu nagpurpaturkar is currently serving as associate dean and head of department microbiology pathology parasitology veterinary public health and livestock products technology at the bombay veterinary college parel mumbai he has been appointed for a term of five years he succeeds aditya kumar misra whose term ended on september 7paturkar did his mvsc and phd from balasaheb sawant konkan krishi vidyapith dapoli he has vast experience in the field of teaching and researchthe governor had constituted a search committee led by retired supreme court judge b sudershan reddy to recommend to him a panel of names trilochan mohapatra directorgeneral indian council of agricultural research new delhi and vikas deshmukh secretary to government adf agriculture and adf department were other members of the committee