New Institutions and Projects

Several new institutions were inaugurated during Shastri’s tenure. Some of these were the Central Institute of Technology Campus at Tharamani, Chennai, in November 1964; the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University at Hyderabad in March 1965 (renamed Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in 1996, and separated into two universities after formation Telangana State, with the university in Telangana being named in July 2014 as Professor Jayashanker Agricultural University); and the National Institute of Technology, Allahabad.

The Jawahar Dock of the Chennai Port Trust was

inaugurated by Shastri, and the construction work of Tuticorin Port was begun in November 1964.

The foundation stone for the Upper Krishna Project, of which the Alamatti dam is a part, was laid by Shastri in 1964. (It was decided by the government to name the Almatti Dam after Lal Bahadur Shastri.)

It was Shastri who inaugurated the plutonium reprocessing plant at Trombay in 1965. This followed the suggestion by Dr. Homi Bhabha that India should develop nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes, an idea which Shastri endorsed. At the initiative of Homi Bhabha, the nuclear explosive design group Study of Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (SNEPP) was set up.