bhubaneswar professor chita ranjan tripathy assumed charge as vicechancellor of biju patnaik university of technology rourkela here on thursday tripathy was appointed vc by odisha governor s c jamir on october 8 2017 the post of vicechancellor had been lying vacant since shyam sundar pattnaik resigned in july 2017tripathy has served as vicechancellor of sambalpur university for three years and his tenure completed recently tripathy who received his m tech and phd degrees in computer science from iit kharagpur has an experience of almost eleven years in the field of administration of educational institutions in addition he has direct teaching experience of about 32 years in various capacities tripathy who took stock of the situation at bput and made a quick analysis of different challenges here on friday hoped to resolve them all and ensure smooth functioning of the universityin conversation with toi on friday tripathy expressed his confidence in meeting challenges faced by the university he agreed that lack of manpower has been a reason behind lapses in operation at the university bput being a 15yearold institution has not been given required members of staff yet tripathy saidi understand that recruitment process for staffs and faculty members for our constituent colleges are pending and has to be taken up on a priority basis tripathy saidhe also said the system of evaluation introduced in the university during his predecessors time will continue we will regularise the pending payment of faculty involved in evaluation tripathy added he said the task of improving the image of the university is an uphill one particularly when there has been a slide in interest among students for engineering educationi am hopeful of making good changes like streamlining examination and publication of results tripathy said