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Jodhpur: Newly appointed chairman to the board of governor of IIT-Jodhpur, Rajagopala Chidambaram, eminent experimental physicist and former principal scientific advisor to Union government and chairman of ISRO, arrived in Jodhpur on Sunday in a first visit of IIT. The new chairman will have to look in to these relatively weaker areas and will have to work hard to address these issues of the institution. The construction of the new campus is being carried out under the supervision of Murty, who is an authority on the structural engineering in the country. On a two days visit, he was received by the director of IIT-Jodhpur, CVR Murty and headed straight to the heritage hotel of Balsamand Lake Palace.According to the registrar of IIT, Subhash Pandey, Chidambram, on the first visit, had a look at the new campus of IIT, which is under construction and inquired about the progress. After the campus, they also visited various laboratories in the campus and obtained details about them as well as providing suggestions for them.Later in the evening, Chidambaram held a brief introductory meeting with the director, advisors and senior faculty members..