The Atomic Energy Commission of India is the governing body of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE),

Government of India The Government of India ( ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...

. The DAE is under the direct charge of the

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

. The Indian Atomic Energy Commission was set up on 3 August 1948 under the late Department of Scientific Research. A resolution passed by the Government of India later replaced the commission by "Atomic Energy Commission of India" on 1 March 1954 under the

Department of Atomic Energy The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) (IAST: ''Paramāṇu Ūrjā Vibhāga'') is a department with headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. DAE was established in 1954 by a Presidential Order. DAE has been engaged in the development of nuc ...

with Homi J. Bhabha as secretary and more financial and executive powers, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The functions of the Atomic Energy Commission are: (i) to organize research in atomic science in the country (ii) to train atomic scientists in the country (iii) to promote nuclear research in commission's own laboratories in India (iv) to undertake prospecting of atomic minerals in India and to extract such minerals for use on industrial scale. India achieved a major success in terms of breakthrough in science and technology when the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) detonated an underground nuclear device at Pokhran in the deserts of Rajasthan on 18 May, 1974. It has five research centres in India viz. * Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai *

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is one of India's premier nuclear research centres. It is the second largest establishment of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), next to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), located at Kal ...

(IGCAR), Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu) *

Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology The Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology is a unit of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, engaged in R&D in non- nuclear front-line research areas of lasers, particle accelerators and related technologies. History On 19 F ...

(RRCAT), Indore * Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata *

Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), with headquarters at Hyderabad and seven regional centers, is the oldest unit of the Department of Atomic Energy (India) (DAE), Government of India. The principal mandate of the o ...

(AMD), Hyderabad. It also gives financial assistance to autonomous national institutes doing research in the field and has various other organisations under it.

History

List of Chairpersons of Atomic Energy Commission of India : Homi Bhabha (1948–1966) : Vikram Sarabhai (1966–1971) : H.N. Sethna (1972–1983) : Raja Ramanna (1983–1987) : M.R. Srinivasan (1987–1990) : P.K. Iyengar (1990–1993) : R. Chidambaram (1993–2000) :

Anil Kakodkar Anil Kakodkar (born 11 November 1943) is an Indian nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic ...

(2000–2009) :

Srikumar Banerjee Srikumar Banerjee (25 April 1946 – 23 May 2021) was an Indian metallurgical engineer. He retired as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI) and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on 30 April 2012. Prior to ...

(2009–2012) :

Ratan Kumar Sinha Ratan Kumar Sinha, is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He had served as the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Government of India ...

(2012–2015) :

Sekhar Basu Sekhar Basu (20 September 195224 September 2020) was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). He also served as the Dir ...

(2015–2018) : K.N. Vyas (2018-)

References

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