Homi Bhabha National Institute

Infobox University
name = Homi Bhabha National Institute


established = 2005
type = Research Institution
city = Mumbai
state = Maharashtra
country = India
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website= http://www.hbni.ac.in/
director = Dr. Ravi Grover

The Homi Bhabha National Institute (Hbni) is a prestigious Indian deemed university, which unifies ten Constituent Institutions (CIs) : 4 premier centers and 6 premier autonomous institutes, each with a well established history of excellence, under a single research-driven framework. It is named after the late Indian physicist Homi J. Bhabha. The Ministry of Human Resource Development of the government of India declared Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) a deemed to be University along with ten Constituent Institutions (CIs) vide notification No. F.9-5/2004-U.3. Prime minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, announced the approval of the government of India for setting up of HBNI on June 4, 2005. HBNI and it's ten CI's are among the very few institutions of excellence chosen by the Parliament of India to be kept out of the purview of reservations in the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Bill, 2006, which increases the reserved seats to 49.5 per cent in prestigious educational institutes like Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [ [http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/dec/14quota1.htm Reservation bill passed in Lok Sabha ] ] .The present director of the institute is Dr. Ravi Grover.

R&D Centers

* Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
* Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam near Chennai
* Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
* Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata

Institutes

* Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
* Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar
* Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad
* Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai
* Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
* Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar ( National Institute for Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar is a part of Institute of Physics. Hence, it also indirectly comes under this university).

ee also

* Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, another research oriented deemed university.

References

External links

* [http://www.dae.gov.in/ni/nisep05/pdf/003_Homi_Bhabha_National_Institute.pdf Info on HBNI on DAE website]