{"id":433682,"date":"2026-08-06T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=433682"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:15:08","slug":"university-grants-commission-chair-kc-takes-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/08\/06\/433682.html","title":{"rendered":"University Grants Commission Chair KC takes oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof Dr Khadga Bahadur KC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Sasmit-Pokharel-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Sasmit-Pokharel-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Sasmit-Pokharel-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Sasmit-Pokharel-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Sasmit-Pokharel.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Pokharel administered the oath of office to Chairperson KC at a programme organised at the Ministry of Education and Sports. Meanwhile, Chairperson KC administered the oath of office and secrecy to UGC Secretary Prof Dr Roji Shrestha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the swearing-in, Minister Pokharel urged the UGC authority to focus on enhancing higher education quality, reforms in the university and restructuring of institutions at the centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister expressed the commitment to provide necessary policy and administrative facilitation from the ministry for the university reforms. Newly-appointed Chairperson KC also pledged to prioritise placing policy and structural reforms of the university as a priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, Secretary Shrestha said she would exert all-out efforts for university reforms by enhancing the effectiveness of the UGC during her tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof Dr Khadga Bahadur KC. Minister Pokharel administered the oath of office to Chairperson KC at a programme organised at the Ministry of Education and Sports. Meanwhile, Chairperson KC &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":433683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-433682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433684,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433682\/revisions\/433684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433682"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=433682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}