The #AtomicEnergyCommission is the governing body of the #DepartmentofAtomicEnergy #DAE , #GovernmentofIndia . The DAE is under the direct charge of the #PrimeMinister .The Indian Atomic Energy Commission was set up on 3rd August 1948 under the #DepartmentofScientificResearch. A resolution passed by the Government of India later replaced the commission by "Atomic Energy Commission of India" on 1st March, 1958 under the Department of Atomic Energy with more financial and executive powers. The functions of the Atomic Energy Commission are: (i) to organise 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 as well as in India; (iv) to undertake prospecting of atomic minerals in India and to extract such minerals for use on industrial scale. The DAE has five research centres: • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (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 (AMD), Hyderabad. It also gives #financialassistance to autonomous national institutes doing research in the field and has various other organisations under it. • Enhancing the share of nuclear power in the Power Sector by deployment of indigenous and other proven technologies, and to develop fast breeder reactors, as well as thorium-based reactors with associated fuel cycle facilities; • Building and operating of research reactors for the production of radioisotopes, building other sources of radiation such as accelerators and lasers, and developing and deploying radiation technology applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture, industry and basic research. • Developing advanced technologies such as accelerators, lasers, supercomputers, robotics, areas related to Fusion research, strategic materials and instrumentation, and encouraging the transfer of technology to industry.
