Inter-University Centres and UGC
National Facilities

Activities of 6 Inter-University Centres, 17 Media Centres, 7 National Facilities Centres, Connectivity Programme, and the Electronic Media Courses in the Media Centres of Universities are coordinated by the Inter University Centre (IUC)/ Mass Communication (MC) Bureau of UGC. The IUCs established as per the provisions of Section 12 ccc of the UGC Act and also National facilities are as follows:
S. NO. Inter-University Centres (IUC) Objectives
1 Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi – 110 067 Accelerator Oriented Research
2 Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune – 411 007 State –of – the – art instrumentation for research in astronomy.
3 Inter University Consortium for DAE Facilities, Indore – 452 001. Use of facilities of Department of Atomic Energy.
4 National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore – 560 010 To assess and accredit public and private institutions of higher learning.
5 Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), Ahmedabad – 380 009. Networking of libraries through Electronic Media and Networking of Universities through UGC – INFONET.
6 Consortium for Educational Communication, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi – 110 067. To disseminate Country wide classroom programmes through television. Presently there are 10 Audio Visual Research Centres and 7 Educational Media Research Centres established in different Universities in different states.
S. NO. Inter-University Centres (IUC) Objectives
1 1 Western Regional Instrumentation Centre, Mumbai Design and Development of indigenous equipment and training of staff from universities and colleges in instrumentation.
2 Regional Instrumentation Centre, I.I.Sc., Bangalore Design and development of indigenous equipment and training of staff in instrumentation.
3 Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, Madras. Research and dissemination of knowledge and organization of training programmes in crystal growth and related areas.
4 M.S.T. Radar Centre, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati. Studies in Atmospheric Dynamics to enable teachers to use MST/Radar facility.
5 Centre for Science Education and Communication, New Delhi. Popularization of Science.
6 Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. To provide facilities for teachers from universities and colleges to work for short-terms upto one year as Associates of the Inter-university Centre and to provide them exposure to new ideas, methods and opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
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