The country’s premier research institute, the TIFR has been hit by a fund crunch. Due to insufficient funds, all staff members and students/ post-doctoral fellows of TIFR will be paid only 50% of the net salary for the month of February immediately.
About:
Status: It is a Deemed University and a research institution under the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
Mandate: It is country’s premier research institute dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences.
Location: With support from J.R.D. Tata, then chairman of the Tata Group, TIFR was founded on 1 June 1945, and Homi Bhabha was appointed its first director.
Established in: 1945.
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT): GMRT, located near Pune (Narayangaon) is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths. It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, a part of the TIFR.
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