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Organizers
Acharya J.C Bose founded the Institute in 1917, with the
purpose of investigating fully "the many and ever opening
problems of the nascent science which includes both life
and non-life". The institute has evolved over the years
into a multi-disciplinary research organization working in
the field of Biological, Biochemical, Chemical and
Physical Sciences with long established departments of
Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Biochemistry and
Biophysics, and the research sections on Plant Molecular &
Cellular Genetics, Animal Physiology, Immuno-technology
and Environmental Science. Recent additions include a
Centre of Excellence in Bioinformation, a National
facility for Proteomics & Genomics and a National facility
for Astroparticle Physics & Space Science. The institute
has a Library, Workshop and service centres like Central
Instrumentation Facility, Distributed Information Centre
(Bioinformatics). Besides two main campuses in Kolkata,
the wide ranging and comprehensive base of available
scientific infrastructure also comprises of the Acharya J.
C. Bose
High Altitude Research Centre, Darjeeling and experimental
field stations at Madhyamgram and Falta in West Bengal
catering to the need and requirements of scientists in
their researches. The J.C. Bose Museum is a special
attraction in the Main Campus at 93/1 A.P.C. Road, Kolkata.
Successors of Acharya Bose continue the tradition of his
great achievements. To mention a few among various path
breaking researches, the first experimental recording of
Meson tracks, discovery of Cholera Toxin, discovery of the
inositol phosphate cycle in plants are legacy of the
institute. In an assessment of research activities
in India by the National Information System for Sciences &
Technology, the research work from Bose Institute was
rated High impact in Biology and Biomedical research
areas. The eminence attained by Bose Institute in
multi-disciplinary scientific research is evident from the
fact that during the last 10 years, more than thousand
research papers were published in peer reviewed journals
and more than 150 students from the institute were awarded
Ph.D.
degrees. Scientists have received recognition in their
respective areas of specialization from national and
international research bodies. Current faculties include
Bhatnagar Awardee, Fellows of Indian National Science
Academy, New Delhi, Fellows of National Academy of
Sciences, Allahabad, Fellows of Indian Academy of
Sciences, Bangalore.
Vijnana Bharati:
Bharat, the land of eternal knowledge and wisdom, has
churned out the secrets of both the material and
metaphysical world; physical science and spiritual science
have progressed hand in hand in India. Here fusion of mind
and matter has been well known. This approach has been the
foundation in all branches of Indian systems of knowledge,
namely Ayurveda,Yoga and Vastuvidya. Because of this
uniqueness, global attention towards this country is
increasing. The West is now looking towards the East with
admiration to assimilate the wealth of wisdom to find the
solutions for many problems.
Vijnana Bharati, launched in 1991, is in the forefront in
this process of dissemination of the wealth of Indian
knowledge and works for the eternal ideology of
“VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM” (world as one family). Vijnan
Bharati's holistic approach is to evolve a policy
frame-work for development with the readiness to accept
and adopt the best from everywhere. With this aim, Vijnana
Bharati organizes World Ayurvedic Congress, World Congress
on Vedic Sciences, Bharatiya Vijnan Sammelan,
Young Scientists' Meet etc. Its various state units
arrange seminars/ workshops regularly. Vijnana Bharati is
a science movement with a unique ideology deeply rooted in
Indian ethos and culture. It is the biggest popular cum
professional science movement with the longest chain of
units widely across the length and breadth of the country.
Top level academicians, scientists and policy makers of
science in India are the torch bearers of this movement,
which aims sustainable development of all the living
species, preservation and conservation of nature and
natural resources of the
planet earth and regain past glory of India in the process
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