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Professor K.B. Powar is Secretary General of the Association of Indian Universities. Earlier he was Vice Chancellor of Shivaji University, Kolhapur and before that Professor of Geology at the University of Poona, Pune. A well known earth scientist, who has been the President of the Geology and Geography Section of the Indian Science Congress and President of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. In recent years Professor Powar has made significant contributions to research and policy planning related to higher education, especially in the areas of quality assurance and economics of education. He is the author of three books including Accreditation in Higher Education - An Indian Perspective, International Students in Indian Universities and Performance Indicators for Distance Higher Education. He has also edited 12 volumes on higher education including University Administration and Management, Higher Education in India - In Search of Quality, State Funding of Higher Education, Higher Education for Human Development, and Internationalisation of Indian Higher Education. About the Author N. L. Gupta (b. 1940) is the first scholar to obtain a Ph. D. from two different faculties of Nagpur University. He has a series of Postgraduate degrees and many firsts at his credit. He is the first candidate to submit a thesis for D. Litt. in R.S. University, Raipur. Recently, he has been awarded by Maharashtra Hindi Granth Academy for the best work on literary criticism styled as Nav Manavatavadi Chintan (Neohumanistic Thought). Dr. Gupta is a prolific writer. Besides many research papers, he has 46 books in both Hindi and English to his credit. Dr. Gupta's writings have a very brad spectrum of themes which include Literature, History, Culture, Education, Sociology, Philosophy, Theology and so on. He is considered to be the authority on Value Education on which he has contributed as many as six books with different angles. Latest in the series was Education and Values in the Mahabharata, Mulaya Parak Shiksha of about 400 pages published form Ajmer, has been profusely quoted by the scholars. He retired as Assistant Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and settled at Nagpur.