Dr. M.V. Pylee Passes Away

KOCHI:
Prof. M.V. Pylee, former Cusat V.C. passed away on Saturday at Rajagiri hospital where he had been in ICU for the past around one month.
Prof. Dr. Pylee served as the Third Vice Chancellor of Cochin University of Science and Technology for the period from 1977 to 1981. He was the recipient of the Padma Bhushan Award in 2006. Emeritus professor Dr. Moolamattom Varkey Pylee M. A., LL.B., D. Lit, LLM (Harvard) is a well-known authority on India’s Constitution and Government, a pioneer in the field of Management Education, a distinguished academician and an eminent education administrator. Prof. Pylee was the Founder Director of the School of Management of Cusat since 1964. He has instituted M.V.Pylee Award ‘for the best distinguished academician of India’.
Prof. Pylee was the founder Director of the School of Management Studies of Cochin University of Science and Technology since 1964. He is well known as the father of Management Education in Kerala.
Prof. Pylee has a brilliant academic career in India and abroad. He has taught at the Universities of Lucknow, Patna, Delhi, Kerala and Cochin and was a Director on the Faculty of the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.
Among the many honours and awards received by Prof. Pylee are: Emeritus Professorship of University of Cochin (1986), Management Leadership Award KMA (1986), Distinguished Leadership Award for outstanding services to teaching and Management Profession, Akshardham Award, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat for Unique Achievements in the Field of Management etc. The Banaras Hindu University has conferred on him the Honorary Doctorate Degree of D.Lit in 1997.
After retirement from the University as Vice Chancellor in 1982 Dr. Pylee has been heading Asian Institute of Development and Entrepreneurship. He had been the Chairman of the Kerala State Advisory Board on Education and the UGC nominee on the Board of Management of Manipal Academy of Higher Education and the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, both Deemed Universities.