Report on VHE Gamma Ray observatories in India
Varsha Chitnis, on behalf of HiGRO collaboration
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Email: vchitnis@iiap.res.in

Abstract. Past decade has seen considerable increase in number of sources detected in GeV-TeV band because of ground-based experiments like HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS. Recently Fermi has also contributed significantly to this field with several exciting discoveries up to the energies of few GeVs. Since large number of sources show cutoffs in their spectra in the range of 10-100 GeV, it is important to lower energy thresholds of ground-based experiments and have overlap with Fermi to study this band. High Altitude GAmma Ray (HAGAR) experiment was designed to achieve lower energy threshold exploiting advantage of its location at higher altitude. This experiment, which is the first stage of Himalayan Gamma Ray Observatory (HiGRO) collaboration between BARC, IIA, TIFR and SINP, will be soon be followed by another large experiment called Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE). Taking advantage of high altitude in addition to very large mirror area of 21 m, MACE is expected to reach lower energy threshold in the neighbourhood of 20-30 GeV. Status of HiGRO will be reviewed followed by some discussion about proposed international collaborative experiment called Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) of which Indian groups intend to become part.