Large-scale national and international science infrastructure projects advancing frontier research.
This section provides an overview of India's participation and leadership in Mega Science Projects and large scientific facilities. These are long-term, high-cost, multi-institutional efforts that open up new frontiers in basic and applied science.
| Project Title | Ministry / Departments |
|---|---|
| Aditya-L1 | Department of Space (DoS) |
| A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| AstroSat | Department of Space (DoS) |
| Chandrayaan-2 | Department of Space (DoS) |
| Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) | Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| Large Hadron Collider (LHC) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| Long Term Ecological Observatories for Climate Change (LTEO) | Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) |
| Mars Orbiter Mission | Department of Space (DoS) |
| Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) | Council of Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR) |
| Square Kilometre Array (SKA) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
| Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects | Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) |