Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Campus Facilities - Hostel Fees, Infrastructure, Address

The campus of HBCSE has excellent basic facilities:

• Laboratories for post-school level in physics, chemistry, and biology
• An integrated laboratory and mathematics activity laboratory for school level
• A computer laboratory with basic computing facilities, LAN, and DTP with GNU/LINUX ; and some newly acquired PowerPCs
• An audio-visual laboratory for producing animations, video films, and multimedia materials
• A workshop supporting civil, electrical and other maintenance work
• A library having over 18,555 books and 125 journals
• An auditorium (capacity 150); Two Lecture Halls (capacity 60 each); Seminar Rooms; Committee Room; equipped with PA system, overhead projector, slide projector and recording facilities
• An exhibition space in the ground floor foyer
• A hostel which can accommodate about 15 long-term visitors and about 25 short-term visitors/participants for orientation programs
• An office providing administrative support with separate sections for establishment, accounts, purchase, and security

A hostel which can accommodate about 15 long-term visitors and about 25 short-term visitors/participants for orientation programs

The objectives of the HWC shall be to:

• Prevent gender discrimination and sexual harassment, by promoting gender amity amongst all HBCSE employees;
• Deal with cases of sexual harassment, in a time bound manner and in accordance with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, aiming at ensuring support services to the victimized and termination of the harassment;
• Make recommendations to the Centre Director for changes/elaborations in the Rules, Standing orders, etc, to make them gender just;
• Recommend appropriate punitive action against the guilty party(ies) to the Centre Director. The HWC is required to submit to the Centre Director, HBCSE, a summary report of work done at the end of every calendar year: e.g., the report for 2015 should be submitted on or about December 31, 2015.

The following members are appointed to the HBCSE Women's Cell (HWC) from December 9, 2014

1. Prof. Sugra Chunawala (Chair) - 2225 - sugrac@hbcse.tifr.res.in

2. Prof. Rekha Vartak - 2318 - rekha@hbcse.tifr.res.in

3. Mr. Shirish Pathare - 2309 - shirish@hbcse.tifr.res.in

4. Mr. K. R. Manoj - 2119 - manoj@hbcse.tifr.res.in

5. Ms. Sumana V. Amin - 2177 - sumana@hbcse.tifr.res.in

6. Prof. Monica Sakhrani - monicasakhrani@gmail.com

The HWC shall perform the functions of the "Internal Complaints Committee" under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. It shall deal with all complaints relating to sexual harassment at HBCSE in accordance with the Act. It shall undertake initiatives and programmes that create awareness about the provisions of the Act and gender related issues that may arise at the workplace, and work towards building an ambience that ensures the safety and security of women members and visitors in the Centre.