data has been collected. Scientific objectives The MRT project intends to produce radio images of the Southern Celestial Hemisphere and interpret these images; to produce a point source astronomical catalog for the Declination range from -70° to -10° (complementing the Sixth Cambridge Survey of radio sources of the northern sky); and to study pulsars; the Galactic plane; the solar radio emission; extended extra-galactic radio sources; Supernova remnants; steep spectrum radio sources. Project team The MRT, first commissioned in 1992, is run as a joint project by the University of Mauritius, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and the Raman Research Institute. While first initiated by Prof. Ch.V. Sastry of the IIA, the project was run by Prof. N. Uday Shankar of the RRI for nearly 5 years. The Head of MRT in Mauritius rotates between Dr Nalini Issur, Dr Girish Beeharry and Dr Radhakhrishna Somanah. References Golap, K.; Udaya Shankar, N.; Sachdev, S.; Dodson, R.; Sastry, Ch. V.; J. Astrophys. Astron., 19, 35-53 (1998) ADS scanned article The Mauritius Radio Telescope brochure by G. K. Beeharry. Radio telescopes Buildings and structures in Mauritius