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India must speed up neutrino project, says Anil Kakodkar

While the detection of gravitational waves earlier this year led to the government giving the green signal for a gravitational wave observatory in India, the neutrino observatory project remains stalled despite getting the go-ahead more than a year ago. Any further delay in establishing a neutrino observatory in the country could prove costly, warned former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar on Tuesday. With China having gone way ahead in setting up a neutrino observatory despite launching the project around the same time as India, Kakodkar said it is time to speed up the process of establishing the observatory. The Indian Neutrino Observatory was approved by the Union government in 2015 to be set up in Bodi West Hills in Theni district, but the project has not progressed in the last year.