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The Government of India, through
the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), and based on the
recommendation of Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister,
decided to create five undergraduate science universities. One of them
is located at Kolkata and was started from 2006. Named as the
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND
RESEARCH (IISER), these IISERs are designed to reach the prestigious
position in the global setting that IISc, IIMs and IITs presently enjoy.
Each IISER is an autonomous institution awarding
its own degrees. The central theme of the IISER is to integrate
education with research so that undergraduate teaching as well as
doctoral and postdoctoral research work are carried out in symbiosis.
Students are encouraged to carry out research projects during the
vacation periods in the first four years of their Masters programme in
various research institutes outside IISER.
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