Who was the ex-officio chairperson of the former Distance Education Council (DEC)?

The Distance Education Council was set up under the IGNOU Act, 1985 to promote and coordinate open and distance learning and maintain its standards. The Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU was its ex officio Chairperson. The DEC was dissolved in 2013 and its regulatory role passed to the UGC, whose Distance Education Bureau now does this work.