New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has installed advanced facilities at its University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC).

The USIC has bought 15 highly-sophisticated instruments worth Rs.16.5 crores relating to various branches of Science.

Instruments have been installed in the Advanced Instrumentation Facility (AIF). These facilities are being used by JNU researchers.

"The AIF has the best facilities available to any university or institute in the country. No Indian university has such sophisticated instruments under one roof, which are useful to all sciences like Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences and Bio-Technology", said Rector, Rajendra Prasad.

All these expensive instruments including the Laser Confocal Microscope, Transmission Electron Microscope, Circular Dichroism Spectrometre and Liquid Nitrogen Plant have been imported from the United States, Japan and Germany.

Six more new equipments in pipeline will be up for use by December later this year.

"We have opened the AIF for our students. We will also allow other educational institutions, Government organization and private companies to use the improved facilities after paying a certain fee" said Shatendra Sharma, USIC Director.

"The instruments are much more advanced than what we have been using till now. They are highly sophisticated. We can feel the difference while working on them. This will surely take the level of the research and analysis at JNU higher than it was before", said a research student from the School of Life Sciences.