February 17, 2016, 6:33 pm
According to the notification issued by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development,
the Central Government, on the advice of the University Grants Commission (UGC), has
accorded its approval to the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra to
start an off-campus centre at Bhubaneswar in the name of National Institute of Science
Education & Research (NISER) with prospective effect.
The aforesaid Act allows for conduct of academic course/programmes, subject to review of the
off-campus centre by the UGC biennially for six years and subsequently after every five year
subject to usual terms and conditions as prescribed under the UGC (Institutions Deemed to be
Universities) Regulations, 2010 and its amendments in 2014 and 2015.
The Institution Deemed to be University viz Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai
had submitted a proposal to Ministry of Human Resource Development in the year 2010 for
establishment of an off-campus centre at Bhubaneswar in the name of National Institute of
Science Education & Research (NISER). The proposal was examined by the UGC with the help
of an Expert Committee in terms of the provisions of UGC (Institutions Deemed to be
Universities) Regulations, 2010 and its amendments.
The UGC vide its communication dated 4th February, 2016 conveyed its approval for declaring
National Institute of Science Education & Research(NISER), Bhubaneswar as an Off-Campus
Centre of Homi Bhaba National Institute (HBNI) subject to concurrence of the Ministry on
amendments in Clause 12.03A of the UGC (Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations,
2010 as amended in the year 2014 & 2015 which relaxes the restrictions of six off-campuses to
the Institutions Deemed to be Universities which are established and managed by the
Government.
Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai was declared as an as Institution Deemed to
be University on the advice of the UGC on 3rd July2005 consisting of following ten Constituent
Units:-
i. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai
ii. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam
iii. Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT), Indore
iv. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata
v. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata
vi. Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar
vii. Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar
viii. Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad
ix. Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), Mumbai and
x. Institute of Mathematical Science (IMSc), Chennai
It may be noted that the Central Government is empowered under Section 3 of the University
Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956 to declare, on the advice of the UGC, an Institution of
higher learning as a Deemed to be University;
