The
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (
IISER; ), and the related National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) are a group of premier institutes being created by the Government of India, through the
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), to promote education and research in the sciences. Five IISER's have been currently planned across the country in the following locations --
Kolkata in
West Bengal,
Pune in
Maharashtra,
Mohali in
Punjab,
Bhopal in
Madhya Pradesh and
Thiruvananthapuram in
Kerala. The financial outlay for each IISER is around
Rs 500
crore (Rs 5 billion) for the first five years. The NISER is being set up in
Bhubaneswar for a slightly higher outlay of Rs 800
crores (Rs 8 billion).
The IISERs at
Kolkata,
Pune,
Mohali,
Bhopal and
Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) have started functioning from the Kolkata Extension Centre of
IIT Kharagpur,
NCL Pune campus,
MGSIPA complex in Sector 26 Chandigarh, ITI Gas Rahat Building Govindpura Bhopal and
College of Engineering, Trivandrum campus respectively. In future they will function from their own campuses. The Campus of
IISER Pune is under construction on of land at Pashan, Pune. The Campus of
IISER Kolkata is coming up over of land at Haringhata, Kalyani near Kolkata. The first set of admissions through
IIT-JEE and
KVPY have been done and the teaching program at
IISER Mohali has commenced from August 2007.
IISER Mohali will ultimately be located...
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