LUCKNOW, June 7: He’s a monkey, he’s a god, and now he’s a business school chairman.

Hanuman, the popular Hindu monkey god revered for his strength and valour, has been named official chairman of the recently opened Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in northern India, a school official said on Saturday.

The position comes with an incense-filled office, a desk and a laptop computer. Four chairs will be placed facing the empty seat reserved for the ‘holy chairman’, but all visitors must enter the office barefoot, said Vivek Kangdi, the school’s vice chairman.

“It is our belief that any job that has blessings of Lord Hanuman is bound to be a success,” said Kangdi.

All Hindus know that Hanuman can lift mountains and leap oceans, but ancient texts make no mention of his business acumen. “Never mind that,” says Kangdi.—AP

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