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TIFR Endowment Fund

To promote flexible funding of new initiatives at the Institute in research activities at the forefront of Science, Technology and Mathematics, there is a pressing need to create a substantial corpus. The TIFR Council of Management approved the establishment of a general purpose Endowment Fund for this purpose in 1997. Such a Fund could serve to promote extended visits of young and distinguished scientists in different institutions in the country and abroad for collaborative research. The Endowment fund collected will also be able to strengthen the other activities of promoting academic excellence at the Institute which includes financial support in the form of augmented research scholarships and additional funding to exceptionally talented and highly motivated young students and scientists who would wish to join the Institute for their doctoral and post doctoral research.

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust made a firm beginning towards the creation of Endowment Fund by donating rupees one crore towards Chair Professorships and Archives, during the Golden Jubilee celebrations (1995-96) of the Institute.

Copyright : TIFR ; Author : Menon Kishore ; Created on 2005-11-07 ; Last modified on 2009-04-24.