Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) MSC FINAL

      Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) is the premier industrial research and development (R&D) organization in India. It was founded on 26 September 1942, by a resolution of the then Central Legislative Assembly. It is funded mainly by the India Ministry of Science and Technology and it is one of the world’s largest publicly funded (R&D) organisations, having linkages to academia, other R&D organisations and industry.

Although CSIR is mainly funded by Science and Technology Ministry, it operates as an autonomous body registered under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860.

The R & D activities of CSIR includes various fields such as aerospace engineering, Structural engineering, ocean sciences, molecular biology, metallurgy, chemicals, mining, food, petroleum, leather, and environment. The Director General of CSIR Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar retired in December 2006. After that Dr. M. K. Bhan had taken the additional charge, but he was relieved on March 7, 2007. After that Dr. T. Ramasami had the additional charge of director general of CSIR.

Presently Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari is the Director-General of CSIR since November 13, 2007.

CSIR Achievements

·           Achieved the first breakthrough of flowering of Bamboo within weeks as against twenty years in nature.

·           First to analyze genetic diversity of the indigenous tribes of Andaman and to establish their origin out of Africa 60,000 years ago.

·           Developed the first transgenic Drosophila model for drug screening for Human Cancer.

·           First to introduce DNA fingerprinting in India.

·           Helped India to be the first Pioneer Investor under the UN law of Sea Treaty.

·           Invented the first ever only once a week non-steroidal family planning pill in the world by the name of Saheli.

·           Designed India's first ever parallel processing computer Flosolver.

·           Partnered more than 50,000 companies with turnover ranging from Rs 5 lakhs to Rs 500,000 crores.

·           Rejuvenated India's one hundred year old refinery at Digboi using the most modern molecular distillation technology.

·           Provided the critical technology for the NMP Lube Extraction Plant of capacity of 2,50,000 tonnes per year.

·           Development of a versatile portable PC-based software 'Bio-Suite' for bioinformatics.

·           Design of 14 seater plane 'SARAS'.

·           Established first ever in the world 'Traditional Knowledge Digital Library' accessible in 8 international languages.

·           Remained in Top 3 in the list of PCT patent applications amongst all developing countries.

·           Topped list of USA patents holders.

·           Successfully challenged the grant of patent in the USA for use of haldi (turmeric) for wound healing and neem as insecticide.

Research Laboratories under CSIR

1.        C-MMACS - CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore

2.        CBRI - Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

3.        CCMB- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

4.        CDRI - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow

5.        CECRI- Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi

6.        CEERI - Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani

7.        CFRI - Central Fuel Research Institute, Dhanbad

8.        CFTRI - Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore

9.        CGCRI - Central Glass and Ceramic research Institute, Calcutta

10.    CIMAP - Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow

11.    CLRI - Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai

12.    CMERI - Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur

13.    CMRI - Central Mining Research Institute, Dhanbad

14.    CRRI - Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi

15.    CSIO - Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh

16.    CSMCRI - Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar

17.    IGIB - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi

18.    IHBT - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur

19.    IICB - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta

20.    IICT - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

21.    IIP - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun

22.    IMT - Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

23.    IITR - Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow (Formerly known as Industrial Toxicology Research Centre)

24.    NAL - National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore

25.    NBRI - National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow

26.    NCL - National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

27.    NEERI - National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur

28.    NGRI - National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad

29.    NIO - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

30.    NISCAIR - National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi

31.    NISTADS - National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi

32.    NML - National Mettalurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur

33.    NPL - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi

34.    RRL, Bhopal - Regional Research Laboratory, Bhopal

35.    RRL, Bhubaneshwar - Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneshwar

36.    RRL, Jammu - Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu

37.    NEIST (RRL), Jorhat - North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat , Jorhat

38.    National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology - Thiruvananthapuram

39.    SERC, M - Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai