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India to begin construction of gravitational wave project
A remote 174-acre tract of land in central India is about to become one of the most sensitive listening posts in the universe
With a formal tender for civil and vacuum works issued this week and a ₹1600 crore (~$190 million USD) construction budget now unlocked, India’s contribution to the global hunt for gravitational waves is shifting from blueprints to brick and steel. “Having this detector on Indian soil, on the other side of the world from the American observatories, will dramatically improve our ability to localize the sources of gravitational waves,” said Somak Raychaudhury, astrophysicist and vice-chancellor of Ashoka University and part of the LIGO-India team. In the intervening years, teams from the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), IUCAA, Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), and the Directorate of Construction, Services and Estate Management (DCSEM) worked through the complex pre-construction phase.
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