Agartala, June 25 (TIWN): The Tripura University was today announced as the 43rd best University across the nation and the fourth best in Eastern India. The India Today – Nielsen University Ranking Survey 2014 published in the June 30, 2014 edition that the University was announced as the 43rd best University across the country, an official communiqué from the Tripura University said here today.

The communiqué further said that changes and transformations that took place in the University over the last one and half years, braving all odds, ‘are in the right direction’. Incidentally, incumbent Vice Chancellor of the Tripura University Professor Anjan Kumar Ghosh replaced former Vice Chancellor Professor (Retd) Arunoday Saha in December, 2012. The former professor of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Gujarat's Gandhinagar tried to revamp academic activities of the University in the past eighteen months.

“We sincerely hope that in the coming days, we shall be able to constantly upgrade and improve on what we are today in our ‘pursuit of excellence”, Registrar of the University OS Adhikari said.