new delhi even as political scientist yogendra yadav is preparing a legal recourse against his ouster from the university grants commission the hrd ministry has gone ahead and appointed sanjay dhande in his place yadav was retired from ugc last week after the ministry rejected his reply to the showcause notice issued to him he was removed for his association with the aam aadmi party dhande a former director of iitkanpur and founder director of pdpm indian institute of information technology design manufacturing is an internationally renowned expert of computer aided design his innovations in cad technology are used by automobile and aeronautical industries throughout the world apart from being a technocrat dhande has been involved in educational planning for more than a decade and worked closely with the hrd ministry the ministry did not want the ugc vacancy to continue for long therefore it has been filled immediately sources said dhande is expected to attend the full commissions meeting on october 1 the meeting is expected to be stormy as two members of the commission are reportedly planning to protest against the manner in which the ugc has been functioning the two are likely to take up the issue of finalization of the minutes of the last ugc meeting yadav had also protested that the dissenting opinion in the meeting was not made part of the official minutes of the meeting though the agenda for the next meeting does not mention setting up of interuniversity centre on teachers education in kakinada the constituency of hrd minister m m pallam raju some members expect it might be brought in later though the decision on iuc has been taken ugc is yet to give its approval on its location a member said