The Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) is an Indian
institute of national importance, headquartered at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Human Resource Development Centre Campus,
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Ghaziabad () is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a part of Delhi NCR. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghaziabad district and is the largest city in western Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,729,000. Ghaziabad Mu ...
. The institute was established for the purpose of granting doctoral and post-doctoral degrees.
[
] The establishment of the academy allowed for a centralised institution to manage this research and was enabled by legislation of the
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...
in 2010.
[ This same legislation labelled the Academy as an " Institute of National Importance".][
The academy was established in 2010 by a resolution of the Government of India on June 17, 2010 and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research Act, 2011 notified on April 3, 2012, as an 'Institution of National Importance', with an aim of furtherance of advancement of learning and research in the fields of science and technology and their interfaces in association with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.][[]]
It is a meta-university with study centres in 37 laboratories and 6 units of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, spread across 23 cities of India.
Governance
The board of governors is the governing body of the academy. The chairman of the board of governors is also the chancellor, and the director general is ex-officio the vice chairman. In the event of a vacancy of the chairman's position, the director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is ex-officio acting chancellor and the director (equivalent to vice chancellor) is the executive head of the organization. After S. K. Brahmachari served as the initial acting chairperson of the board of governors, R. A. Mashelkar was appointed, also making him first regular chancellor. Baldev Raj was the second regular chairman and chancellor. Former Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute Director Chandra Shekhar was appointed as the academy's chairman on October 10, 2018 by the president of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
After having been successively served by several faculty as acting directors, Rajender Singh Sangwan
Rajender Singh Sangwan (born 24 August 1958) is an Indian biochemist, professor and agriculture biotechnologist. He is the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India. He was the founder CEO of Cente ...
assumed the charge of the first regular director on August 17, 2017.
Executive head
The director is the chief executive of the academy. It is currently Rajender Singh Sangwan.
Senate and academic council
The director is also chairman of the Senate (equivalent to Academic Council). Rajender Singh Sangwan is the current chairman.
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation recognition
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in the Ministry of Science & Technology has recognised the academy as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
About
The academy has about 2000 full-time faculty members from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research laboratories, over 3000 students enrolled in programmes and about 40 non-academic staff members.
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2010 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2010
Research institutes established in 2010
Research institutes in Uttar Pradesh
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh