India, Feb. 24 -- Two business verticals of L&T - the Heavy Civil Infrastructure (HCI) and Heavy Engineering (HE) - have jointly won a significant order from the Department of Atomic Energy of Government of India, for establishing the LIGO India Observatory.

The Observatory will come up at Aundha in Maharashtra's Hingoli district.

LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) is used for detection of gravitational waves caused by cataclysmic cosmic events through multikilometer-scale wave detectors using laser interferometry.

The initiative will be one of India's flagship 'Mega Science' projects, developed through a collaboration between premier Indian research institutions - including RRCAT and IPR - and the LIGO Laborato...