Abstract
A Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is being set up by TIFR as a National Facility at Khodad, near Narayangaon, 80 km north of Pune and 200 km east of Bombay. The academic headquarters of the GMRT is to be located in the University of Poona Campus.When completed in 1992, GMRT will become the most powerful facility in the world for astronomical research in the metre and decimetre wave-bands (~30 to 1420 MHz). It is being designed to investigate a wide variety of celestial objects, reaching from our solar system to the very edge of the observable Universe. An important scientific goal will be to verify the prediction of the Big Bang Model for the origin of the Universe, according to which galaxies must have condensed out of massive clouds of neutral hydrogen, which can be observed only at metre wavelengths, through their highly redshifted λ 21-cm line radiation.
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