MP: New Delhi, Oct 25 (ANI): The Union Cabinet today gave its approval
for the setting up of two Indian Institutes of Science Education and
Research (IISERs) at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram, at a total cost of
Rs. 1000 crores ( Rs. 500 crore per institute).
On the recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime
Minister (SAC-PM), the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
has already set up three IISERs at Pune, Kolkata and Mohali.
The IISERs at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram would be the fourth and
fifth to be set up in the country.
The Government of India has decided to create the IISERs with the
unique objective of integrating undergraduate education, postgraduate
education and research under the same umbrella.
The basic idea of IISER is to create research universities of the
highest caliber in which teaching and education will be totally
integrated with the state of the art research.
These universities will be devoted to undergraduate and postgraduate
teaching in sciences in an intellectually vibrant atmosphere of
research.
One of the important goals of creating these universities is to make
education and careers in basic sciences more attractive by providing
opportunities in integrative teaching and learning of sciences and
breaking the barriers of traditional disciplines.
One other significant concept of the proposed IISER is to actively
forge strong relationship with existing universities and colleges and
network with laboratories and institutions, in order to share and
complement faculty resources as well as research, library and
computational facilities.
IISERs at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram will provide high-quality
scientific manpower to government organizations such as the Department
of Atomic Energy (DAE), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Defence Research
and Development Organization (DRDO), teaching profession in other
universities and other sectors of the society at large. They will also
cater to the growing research needs of the private sector.
The IISERs will have programmes of study called schools in various
interdisciplinary areas of Biological Sciences, Mathematical and
Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Materials
Sciences.
Each Institute is expected to have about 2000 undergraduate and
postgraduate students and research scholars, and about 200 faculty
members, across disciplines.
The academic programmes will emphasise the spirit of research at an
early stage of education.
The laboratory infrastructure of IISERs at Bhopal and
Thiruvananthapuram will be of international standards. They will
attract the best talent within the country as well as successful
Indian scientists from abroad. (ANI)
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