Mega Facilities for Basic Research

This programme is aimed to create Mega Science facilities and launch Mega Science projects in and out of the country to improve access to such state-of-the-art facilities for the Indian scientific community, especially from the academic sector. Under this programme there are several projects which are funded by SERB and are as follows : 1. Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), 2. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, 3. India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), Madurai, 4. Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) Project, 5. Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project, 6. Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project in South Africa and Australia, 7. Utilization of Twin Indian Beamlines for Macromolecular Crystallography (XRD2) and High Pressure Physics (XPRESS) at the Elettra Synchrotron Facility, Trieste, Italy and 8. Accelerator-based Research Facilities