The Union Government has inaugurated the 1st phase of permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Vithura in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. It was inaugurated by the Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani in presence of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram is dedicated to scientific research & science education of international standards. It had started functioning in the state in August 2008 with a transit campus at the College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram, kerala.
About the Institutes of Science Education & Research:
- IISERs are a group of most premier statutory science education & research institutes in India of national importance and are intended to be the IITs of basic sciences.
- The institutes were created under The National Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2010 (an amendment of the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007).
- Presently there are 6 IISERs in operational namely IISER Kolkata (West Bengal), IISER Pune (Maharashtra), IISER Mohali (Punjab), IISER Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), IISER Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) & IISER Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh).
- In 2015 Union Budget, two new IISERs one at Brahmapur (Odisha) and other one in Nagaland have been announced.
HRD Ministry inaugurates permanent campus of IISER in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
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