VECC is planning to develop a rare ion beam facility called ANURIB1ANU stands for “Atom in Sanskrit”.1 (Advanced National facility for Unstable and Rare Isotope Beams) at the upcoming new campus at New Town in Kolkata. ANURIB aims to attract a wide user community in nuclear physics, nuclear-astrophysics, material science and biology and will provide India with world class accelerator facilities. ANURIB will be built around a 50MeV 100kW superconducting electron linac (e-Linac) photo-fission driver and is planned to be a combined ISOL and PFS type facility. Construction of the facility will also enable next generation research into production of medical isotopes.In preparation for ANURIB, a low energy ISOL type facility has been built around the existing K130 cyclotron at VECC. Developed for the past decade, this facility was aimed at completing major R&D steps involved in the construction of ANURIB. Presently this facility accelerates beams up to energy of 415keV/u and recently first radioactive beams have been produced. Development of a 10MeV Injector Cryo Module for the e-Linac has been started in collaboration with TRIUMF. In this paper the plans for ANURIB project and present status of the R&D activities will be presented.