BHU faculty declared ‘network centre’ for physics

“The BHU received a letter in this regard from UGC last week and Rs 5.1 crore has been released,” said Professor PC Mishra,head of the Physics Department.

As a network centre,the BHU will do collaborative research with other universities and institutes whose physics departments are comparatively weaker in research and teaching activities.

“Research scholars and students of those universities will be invited to work in our laboratories free of cost,” said Professor Mishra.

The department will also organise lectures,symposiums and workshops for the universities on important topics of physics every week. These lectures will be delivered by eminent scientists and faculties of various other universities and research centres.

The department has already started listing the universities and research centres. Prominent among these are the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,Kolkata; Hyderabad University; SN Bose National Centre of Basic Sciences,Kolkata; Indian Institute of Sciences,Bangalore; and Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.

An official of the UGC said the Physics Department of BHU is well equipped with advanced technologies for research and also has a skilled faculty. That was why it has been made a network centre.

“The department will start working as a network centre after a month,as the university has to complete some formalities,” Mishra said. “The university will post all relevant information on its website and applications will be invited from institutes across India to join us.”

The Physics Department was the first in BHU selected by UGC to be established as network centre of any subject so far,Mishra said. “It might be first in the state too.”