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The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a multi-campus public funded researchuniversity, on Monday appointed Prof Shalini Bharat as its new director. Until recently, she was the acting director after the retirement of Prof Parasuraman in February 2018. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and in 1964 the government declared it to be adeemed to university. A gold medallist in MA from and a PhD from Allahabad University, Bharat joined TISS in September 1984 as a lecturer and became a professor in July 2000. Prior to taking over asthe deputy director (academic), she was the first dean of the school of health systems studies and the national coordinatorof global fund oroject at TISS..