Das, H.K.Menon, S.M.Paranjpye, A.Tandon, S.N.2015-03-112015-03-112015-03-11http://hdl.handle.net/11007/2987We present the report on characterisation of the site for IUCAA telescope, which was conducted during October '96 to April '97. The main points highlighted are the results on: seeing, contribution of atmospheric turbulence neai• the surface to seeing , extinction and sky brightness, cloud coverage and surface weather data. In addition the key design features of the instruments developed for these observations are presented.enIUCAA,TelescopeArticle