Report by Orissadiary correspondent; Bhubaneswar : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to lay the foundation stone for the new campus of the prestigious National Institute for Science Education and Research (NISER) near here next month.
Though the exact date is yet to be finalised, the foundation stone for our own campus is likely to be laid by the Prime Minister by the second week of July, NISER director Prof T K Chandrasekhar told the mediapersons.The premier institute is likely to move to its own campus, to be constructed at a cost of Rs 400 crore on 300 acres, at Aragul near Jatni by 2013, he said.
Once the new campus is ready, NISER would have around 1,000 under graduate and 700 PHD students besides 250 faculty members and 500 staff, Chandrasekhar said.
Schools of earth and planetary sciences and computer sciences are proposed to be introduced in the new campus. At present functioning from the campus of Institute of Physics since its inception by the department of Atomic Energy, NISER is all set to launch PHD programmes from December, this year.Thereafter, an integrated PHD programme is expected to begin from August, next year at the premier institution of basic science education where first batch of students were admitted in September, 2008.