‘Speed up basic infrastructure work in Knowledge City’

Agrawal asked the senior officials of the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA),Public Works Department,Water Supply and Sanitation department,Punjab State Power Corporation Limited and district administration to immediately complete the pending works,which fall under their respective departments.

Taking serious note of the high-tension live electricity lines passing across the IISER campus,Chief Secretary directed the Power Corporation officials to immediately find a suitable solution to the problem,which was raising safety concerns and creating hindrances in the further construction in the campus.

IISER Director Prof N Satyamurthy told Agrawal that IISER in Mohali is one of the only five national institutes that were established by the Union government during 2006-2008 for the promotion of science research and education in different regions. All teaching and most research activity at IISER in Mohali has moved from its transit campus in Chandigarh,where it started operations since establishment in September 2006,to the institute’s new campus in Knowledge City here from this session.

He said the institute’s research programme was in full swing with sophisticated instrumentation for experimental research in Physics,Chemistry and Biology being kept in the fully operational Central Analytical Facility building.

The facility is currently host to the NMR Research Facility housing two sophisticated high-field FTNMR spectrometers (a 400MHz and a 600MHz which is the highest in the region in an academic institution),the Raman & NSOM spectrometer lab,and the X-Ray crystallography lab. Deputy Commissioner Varun Roojam and GMADA Chief Administrator Sarvjit Singh were present.