Y S Rao resigns as chairman of ICHR

Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) ChairmanYellapragada Sudershan Rao hasresigned from the post .

About Y S Rao :

• Rao, who retired from Kakatiya University Department had been appointed aschairman of ICHR for a term of three years.
• The appointment of Rao, who is learnt to be a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojanawhich is affiliated to the RSS, had also been a controversial one and attracted criticism from other historians like Romila Thapar who had expressed surprise while questioning his academic credentials.

About ICHR :

The Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) is an autonomous body of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, which had been established by an Administrative Order of the then Ministry of Education and Social Welfare. It was registered as a Society with the Delhi Government .