The IndIGO Consortium has spearheaded the proposal for the LIGO-India gravitational-wave observatory, in association with the LIGO laboratory in US. In addition to the LIGO-India project, the other activities of IndIGO involve facilitating international collaborations in gravitational-wave physics and astronomy, initiating a strong experimental gravitational-wave research program in India, etc. The observatory will be operated jointly by IndIGO and LIGO and would form a single network along with the LIGO detectors in U.S. and Virgo in Italy. The design of the detector will be identical to that of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the US.
The three lead institutions in the IndIGO consortium. IndIGO has currently over 70 member scientists. Bala Iyer of the Raman Resarch Institute is the Chairperson and Tarun Souradeep of the Inter Resarch University for the Astro Physics and the Institute of the Plasma Resarch. The international advisory committee is chaired by theoretical physicist and has members from several international as well as Indian research institutions.