Bangalore, Feb 3 (IANS) Ras Al Khaimah ruler Sheikh Saud in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) granted $3.25 million (Rs.16 crore) to the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) here for buying equipment and funding research projects.
“The six-year grant will be used to buy equipment and chemicals and fund research of junior as well as senior scientists,” the centre said in a statement here Friday.
In recognition of the grant, a wing of the new building set up for materials and chemistry research will be named after the ruler as ‘Sheikh Saqr Laboratory’, which will be part of the international centre for material science.
Centre’s director and Prime Minister’s Scientific Advisory Council chairman C.N.R. Rao will head the lab.
Set up by the department of science and technology in 1989 to mark the centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the multi-disciplinary institute promotes world-class scientific research and training at the frontiers of science and engineering.
As a deemed university, the centre grants Master’s and Ph.D degrees to about 150 graduate students every year.
