people of diverse caste, religion and language; yet it presents the unique feature of unity in diversity. Nazirakhat is linked by a PWD road from the National Highway No. 37. It is about 800 metres from NH-37. Nazirakhat is linked by road with the rest of the state and the country. The institute is surrounded by greenery and it is near the Air-India flying base at Sonapur. Publication Several research papers have been published after the establishment of the institute in journals like Phys. Scr., Phys. Lett. A, Phys. Rev. Lett. and so on Collaboration The Centre of Plasma Physics - Institute for Plasma Research has active collaboration with the following institutes and universities: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay; Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore; Institute for Plasma Research, Gandinagar; IPP, Juelich, Germany; IPP, Garching, Germany; Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad; National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Bhubaneswar; Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta; St. Andrews University, UK; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Tokyo; University of Bayreuth, Germany; and University of Kyoto, Japan. Awards and recognition S. Sen, Associate Professor, had been awarded EPSRC Professorship Award (1998), UK; JSPS Professorship Award (1999), Japan; Junior Membership Award (1999), Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK; and Associateship Award (1999-2005), ICTP, Trieste, Italy. S.R. Mohanty, presently Assistant Professor, had been awarded Ph.D. degree by the University of Delhi for his thesis entitled "X-ray studies on dense plasma focus and plasma processing". M. Kakati, Research Scientist, had been awarded Senior Research Fellowship of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (1999-2001). K. R. Rajkhowa, had been awarded Plasma Science Society of India Fellowship for the year 1999. B.J. Saikia, Research Scientist, had been awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post doctoral fellowship for two years in 1999. B. Kakati, Research Scholar, has been awarded the BUTI Young Scientist Award in 2011. ITER-India ITER will be built mostly through in-kind contributions from the participant countries (Parties) in the form of components manufactured by the Parties and delivered/installed at ITER. ITER-India is the Indian Domestic Agency (DA), formed with the responsibility to provide to ITER the Indian contribution. See also Aditya (tokamak) Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) Department of Atomic Energy References External links Official website of the Institute for Plasma Research Aditya tokamak SST-1 Tokamak Facilitation Centre for