Singh is the seventh Vice-Chancellor of the university, a press release said.
He was with the Department of Chemistry in Delhi University prior to this appointment.
The university did not have a full-fledged Vice-Chancellor for nearly two years and Anisa Basheer Khan, a senior faculty was the acting VC.
Union HRD Ministry last week issued a notification appointing Singh as the new VC.
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