UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research (formerly known as IUC-DAEF), was created in the year 1990. The broad objective of Consortium is developing competence and promoting research in front line areas of science and technology in Indian Universities by providing institutional framework for optimum utilization of major research facilities established by the Department of Atomic Energy such as Synchrotron Radiation Sources at, RRCAT Indore; Dhruva Reactor at BARC Mumbai; VECC at Kolkata and facilities at IGCAR, Kalpakkam.