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We are glad to announce scholarships in the memory of our founding father Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai aimed at motivating and supporting economically weaker students from rural areas of Gujarat, belonging to all sections of the society, to pursue higher education in science. The scholarship is named as Vikram Sarabhai Protsahan Yojana (VIKAS ...
Vikram Sarabhai (1919-71), the renaissance man of Indian science, visualized the impossible and often made it happen. Founder of India’s space programme, Vikram dreamed of communication satellites that would educate people at a time when even a modest rocket programme seemed daring; of huge agricultural complexes serviced by atomic power and desalinated sea water. He […]
Jul 18, 2022 · Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was born on 12 August 1919 into the well-known Sarabhai family. The Sarabhai’s were major industrialists committed to securing India’s independence from British colonial rule, encouraging Vikram to study science at Gujarat College in Ahmedabad. Sarabhai’s study then took him to the University of Cambridge in ...
Feb 5, 2022 · The start of a love triangle in Vikram Sarabhai's life. After a few years of marital bliss, one day Mrinalini was informed that one of her closest friends, Kamla Chowdhry's husband, who was an Imperial Civil Service officer, was shot dead by someone on the eve of Diwali. Hearing the news, Mrinalini had forced her friend to come to Ahmedabad for ...
The program commenced at Dr Vikram Sarabhai’s birth place, Ahmedabad, on 12th August 2019, wherein Honorable Prime Minister of India addressed the gathering. The valedictory function is organized on 25th September, 2020 in virtual mode, with address by the Honorable President of India.
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell & Molecular Biology which is an integral part of Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, was established in year 2012, with a view to expand access to high quality interdisciplinary research and integrated teaching for young bright minds of India. Interdisciplinary research in life ...
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai was a great visionary, and we are celebrating his Centenary birth anniversary, this year. It was amazing to see, 50 years back, he had planned meticulously various possible remote sensing applications that materialised in the fields of weather and oceans, coastal zone management, geoscience, hydrology, forestry, land use and agriculture and contributed significantly towards national development. Not only that, he had thought about the kinds of sensors, processing and ...
