 Institutions such as the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) emerged from this vision.Pal was a member of UN Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development, Scientific Council, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste and Executive Committee and United Nations University, and he was Vice President of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Indian National Science Academy in the year 1980–1981.He was the Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (2007-2012).