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Delhi: The Centre has decided to create two new institutions
devoted to science education and research to be named 'Indian
Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER),' an
official release said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh will lay the foundation stone of the IISER in Kolkata
on October 30 in the Auditorium Complex of the Saha Institute
of Nuclear Physics, the release said adding that the Institutes
would be located at Kolkata and Pune and would integrate under-graduate
education, post-graduate education and research under the
same umbrella. It may be mentioned that at present the only
Science Institute in the country is the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore which is fully funded by the Ministry of
Human Resource Development. This Institute does not have an
under-graduate stream and it caters to only post-graduate
education and research.
The setting up of these Institutes is a culmination of a long-
standing desire of the scientific community in India to set
up high caliber institutes in which science teaching and education
will be totally integrated with the state-of-the-art research.
In recent past, many experts have expressed concern about
the state of education and research in basic and natural science
in India. In spite of the fact that scientific establishments
in space, nuclear and defence areas have come up in the past
few years, the quality of science education has deteriorated
considerably. Deliberating on all these issues in detail,
the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister headed
by Prof. C.N.R. Rao has strongly recommended establishing
these two Institutes at Kolkata and Pune. For the Institute
at Kolkata, 200 acres of land will be provided by the Government
of West Bengal at Kalyani. Similarly, for the Institute at
Pune, the National Chemical Laboratories, Pune will provide
100 acres of land within its premises. These Institutes will
provide under-graduate and post-graduate teaching and research
in sciences. "One of the important goals of creating these
institutes is to make education and career in basic sciences
more attractive by providing opportunities in integrated teaching
and learning of sciences and break the barriers of traditional
disciplines. One other significant concept of the proposed
IISER is to actively forge strong relationship with the existing
universities and colleges and network laboratories and institutions,
in order to share and complement faculty resources as well
as research, library and computational facilities.
These Institutes at Pune and Kolkata would be set up with
an approximate cost of Rs.500 crores each," it said. The IISER
will have programme of study in various inter- disciplinary
areas of biological sciences, mathematical and computer sciences,
physical sciences, chemical sciences, life sciences and material
sciences with a strength of about 2000 students in integrated
master programme, doctoral programme and post-doctoral programme.
There would be about 200 faculty members in each of these
Institutes across disciplines. The academic session is expected
to commence from the year 2006- 07 in a temporary location.
Meanwhile, on the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory
Council to the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Human Resource
Development has also constituted two Implementation Committees
' one at Kolkata and another one at Pune. The Committee at
Kolkata will be headed by Professor Bikash Sinha, Director,
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Committee at Pune
is headed by Dr. S. Sivaram, Director, National Chemical Laboratories,
Pune.
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