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Kolkata: Renowned academician Ananda Deb Mukherjee passes away
Ananda Deb Mukherjee

Kolkata: Renowned academician Ananda Deb Mukherjee passes away

| @indiablooms | 08 Oct 2020, 08:54 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Well-known Bengal academician and geologist, emeritus professor of Jadavpur University (JU) and former Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Vidyasagar University, Ananda Deb Mukherjee, who was diagnosed with Covid-19, died in a south Kolkata hospital on Thursday morning. He was 82.

Ten days ago, Mukherjee was diagnosed with the contagious virus and was admitted to a private health facility at Shakespeare Sarani in south Kolkata where he breathed his last on Thursday.

Mourning his death, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in a statement: "Saddened to hear the demise of renowned academician Ananda Deb Mukherjee, who died in a Kolkata hospital today at an age of 82."

"Ananda Deb Mukherjee was an emeritus professor of Jadavpur University and a founding-member of the Centre for Oceanography at the university, and he was also actively attached with the National Council of Education till his last day," the statement read.

 

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