A member of the Board of Management of the Vidyapith for the past three years, Patel is also the incumbent V-C of Indian Institute of Teacher Education (IITE) and incharge V-C of Children's University, both based in Gandhinagar.
"The current Chancellor himself requested to fix his term from lifetime to five years,” Gujarat Vidyapith Mandal secretary Harshad Patel told The Indian Express.
Bose was personally requested by Mahatma Gandhi to paint the posters for the annual Congress in Haripura village of Gujarat in 1937 and two earlier annual gatherings too, as per Vidyapith records.
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The staffers, including peons and clerks a majority of whom are in the Group C category working on a contract basis, have been living on the campus some for over 40 years.