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In his capacity as the principal secretary of the higher education department, Sharma is the convener of a three-member VC committee of the Bharathiar University.The search committee to select a VC would be constituted six months before the term of the incumbent VC ends. After working on that, the university would apply for NAAC inspection, in a bid to get approval from the University Grants Commission to conduct distance education programmes. COIMBATORE: The higher education department would start in November the ground work for setting up a search committee to select the vice-chancellor of the Bharathiar University , said principal secretary to the department of higher education Mangat Ram Sharma on Wednesday.Sharma was in the university on Wednesday for the first time after assuming charge as the principal secretary of higher education department last month. The term of the suspended VC, A Ganapati, ends in March 2019. The university currently has a NAAC score of 3.11..