Atomic Energy Commission of India - wikipedia Atomic Energy Commission of India Atomic Energy Commission of India Agency overview Formed August 3, 1948 ; 69 years ago ( 1948 - 08 - 03 ) Preceding agency Department of Scientific Research Jurisdiction Indian government Headquarters Mumbai Employees Classified Annual budget Rs. 214.70 billion ( FY 2009 ) Agency executive Sekhar Basu, Chairman Website http://www.aec.gov.in/ The Atomic Energy Commission is the governing body of the Department of Atomic Energy ( DAE ), Government of India. The DAE is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister. The Atomic Energy Commission was set up in August 1948 to look after atomic energy activities in the country. The functions of the Atomic Energy Commission are : ( i ) to organise research in atomic science in the country ; ( ii ) to train, atomic scientists in the country ; ( iii ) to promote nuclear research in commission 's own laboratories as well as in India ; ( iv ) to undertake prospecting of atomic minerals in India and to extract such minerals for use on industrial scale. It has five research centres viz. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ( BARC ), Mumbai Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research ( IGCAR ), Kalpakkam ( Tamil Nadu ) Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology ( RRCAT ), Indore Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre ( VECC ), Kolkata Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research ( AMD ), Hyderabad. It also gives financial assistance to autonomous national institutes doing research in the field and has various other organisations under it. History List of Chairmen : Homi Bhabha ( 1948 - 1966 ) Vikram Sarabhai ( 1966 - 1971 ) H.N. Sethna ( 1972 - 1983 ) Raja Ramanna ( 1983 - 1987 ) M.R. Srinivasan ( 1987 - 1990 ) P.K. Iyengar ( 1990 - 1993 ) Dr. R. Chidambaram ( 1993 - 2000 ) Dr. Anil Kakodkar ( 2000 - 2009 ) Dr. Srikumar Banerjee ( 2009 - 2012 ) Dr. Ratan Kumar Sinha ( 2012 - 2015 ) Dr. Sekhar Basu ( 2015 - till date ) Indian commissions Permanent Agricultural Costs and Prices Agriculture Atomic Energy Backward Classes Cattle Competition Consumer Disputes Redressal Cooperation with UNESCO Delimitation Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes Election Electricity Regulation Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector Farmers Finance Forward Markets Human Resources for Health Human Rights Investment Knowledge Labour Law Minorities Minority Educational Institutions Pay Planning Protection of Child Rights Public Service Railway Safety Safai Karamcharis Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes Statistics University Grants Women Vigilance Ad hoc Administrative Reforms Gadgil Kalelkar Kapur Khosla Laththa Commission Liberhan Mandal Mukherjee Nanavati Narendran Ranganath Misra ( Minorities ) Sarkaria Shah States Reorganisation Category List Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atomic_Energy_Commission_of_India&oldid=780978243 '' Categories : Government agencies of India Atomic Energy Commission of India 1948 establishments in India Nuclear technology in India Nuclear energy in India Government agencies for energy ( India ) Organisations based in Mumbai Government agencies established in 1948 Governmental nuclear organizations Hidden categories : Pages using infobox government agency with unknown parameters Talk About Wikipedia हिन्दी മലയാളം தமிழ் Edit links This page was last edited on 18 May 2017, at 09 : 59. About Wikipedia

Question: the first chairman of the atomic energy commission in india was
Answer: Homi Bhabha