Institutions of National Importance
The Trust is best known for promoting and setting up pioneering institutions of national importance.
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, (1936)
- Tata Memorial Hospital, (1941)
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-Mumbai, (1945)
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- National Centre for the Performing Arts, (1966)
- The National Institute of Advanced Studies, (1988)
- Indian Institute of Science
- The J. R. D. Tata Center for Ecotechnology, (1998)
- The Sir Dorabji Tata Center for Research in Tropical Diseases, (2000)
- The Tata Agricultural and Rural Training Cente for the Blind.
- The International Institute of Demographic Studies.
- Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1912
- TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics- Bangalore,
- TIFR Hyderabad,2011
- Tata Medical Center- Kolkata, (2011)
Each of these institutions works in frontier areas of learning, research and knowledge dissemination. The ideas that have generated from these institutions and the people who have passed through their portals have enriched the various facets of India's development. Each of these institutions has produced a large number of social scientists, cancer specialists, nuclear scientists and distinguished institutional administrators who have all strived to make the country a power to reckon with in science and technology.
In the last decade, the Trust has also given shape to the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore and helped the Dr MS Swaminathan Research Foundation to start the JRD Tata Centre for Ecotechnology in Chennai.
In addition to these institutions, it has started with the assistance of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Asia's first institute for the training of the rural blind, The Tata Agricultural and Rural Training Centre for the Blind, and with the cooperation of the United Nations, the International Institute of Demographic Studies.
The Trust also helps various organizations and individuals with its grants. Its grants consist of Endowment Grants, grants to Non-Governmental Organisations and Small Grants, while Individual Grants are given to deserving individuals for medical, travel or educational purposes.
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