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 15919, ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of States and union t ...

. The DAE is under the direct charge of the

Prime Minister A prime minister 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. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

. 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 with

Homi J. Bhabha Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the ...

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 Pokhran (official spelling Pokaran; ) is a town and a municipality located 112 km east of Jaisalmer city in the Jaisalmer district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated in the Thar Desert region. Surrounded by rocks, sand and ...

in the deserts of Rajasthan on 18 May 1974. It has six research centres in India viz. *

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is India's premier nuclear research facility, headquartered in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by Homi Jehangir Bhabha as the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January 1954 ...

(BARC), Mumbai * Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu) * Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (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 ...

(AMD), Hyderabad. * Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP), Harayana It also gives financial assistance to autonomous national institutes doing research in the field and has various other organisations under it.

Chairpersons

List of Chairpersons of Atomic Energy Commission of India # Homi Bhabha (1948–1966) # Vikram Sarabhai (1966–1971) # H.N. Sethna (1972–1983) #

Raja Ramanna Raja Ramanna (28 January 1925 – 24 September 2004) was an Indian nuclear physicist. He was the director of India and weapons of mass destruction, India's nuclear program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which culminated in Smiling Buddha ...

(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 power, 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 ...

(2000–2009) # Srikumar Banerjee (2009–2012) # Ratan Kumar Sinha (2012–2015) # Sekhar Basu (2015–2018) #K.N. Vyas (2018–2023) # Ajit Kumar Mohanty (2023–present)

References

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