TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2004 03:21:02 AM ]
MUMBAI: The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) plans to set up a university based in Mumbai. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre associate director S P Garg told TOI that a proposal had been sent to the HRD ministry for approval.
"Our plan envisages setting up a deemed university offering quality post-graduate courses in scientific disciplines to both DAE staff and outsiders." he said.
To be named after the father of India's nuclear establishment, the varsity will be called the Homi Bhabha National Institute and it main programmes will be the award of post-graduate MTech, MPhil and PhD degrees.
The need for forming a separate university catering mainly to the needs of the nuclear establishment, which made a global mark with the successful N-weapon tests at Pokhran in May 1974 and 1998, was discussed at a meeting of atomic scientists in Mumbai between May 17 and 19.
The three-day brain storming session, called 'Vision For the Future', saw themajority of the participants representing different atomic establishments backing the move to set up such a university.