CSIR 2011 Exams Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CSIR 2011 Exams Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) –the premier industrial R&D system in India was established in 1942 by an answer of the then Central Legislative Assembly. It is an self-governing body registered under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860.CSIR aims to provide industrial competitiveness, social welfare, strong S&T base for strategic sectors and advancement of central knowledge.
Today CSIR is recognized as one of the world’s biggest publicly provided R&D systems having linkages to academia, R&D establishments and industry. CSIR’s 37 research lab not only knit India into a jumbo network that impacts and add character to the life of each and every Indian but CSIR is also party to the esteemed Global explore Alliance with the objective of utilizing global cognition pool for global good by global funding. CSIR’s R&D portfolio embraces areas as diverse as Aerospace, Biotechnology, and Chemicals…indeed, almost the ABC-Z of Indian Science.
CSIR aim
To furnish scientific industrial R&D that maximizes the economic, environmental and societal profits for the people of India.
Core focus on science
The CSIR transfers the knowledge produced through research activities by means of technology and skilled people. The generation and application of information reside at the core of the CSIR. This takes place in fields such as biosciences; the built environment; defense, peace, safety and security; materials science and manufacturing; and natural resources and the environment.
R&D outcomes:
Activities include intellectual property (IP) management, technology transfer (for commercial gain as well as for social good), knowledge dissemination and impact assessment.
Customers
The CSIR has clients in both the private sector (micro, small, medium and large enterprises; formal and informal), as well as in the public sector (national, provincial and local government). The organization also deals with public enterprises and institutions, national safety and security institutions, and development coordinates.
CSIR’s main research areas
Built Environment
Defense, Peace, Safety and Security technologies
Food, biological and chemical technologies
Materials and manufacturing sciences
Natural Resources and Environment
Laser technologies
CSIR Accomplishments
1. Achieved the first breakthrough of flowering of Bamboo within weeks as against twenty years in basic nature
2. Developed the first transgenic Drosophila model for drug screening for cancer in humans.
3. First to introduce DNA fingerprinting in India.
4. Helped India to be the first Pioneer Investor under the United Nations Convention on the Law
of the Sea.
5. Invented the first ever only once a week non-steroidal family planning pill in the world by the name of Saheli.
1. Designed India’s first ever parallel processing computer Flosolver.
Career & Opportunities
CSIR contributes immensely to the fostering, sustenance and upgrading of the human S&T resources of the country and its support-umbrella covers all age groups ranging from sixteen to sixty-five, in addition to adopting human resources management systems that improve its ability to build successful, high performance organizations. It is CSIR’s contribution to generation of the pool of bench-level workers in science that recognizes it from other funding agencies.
Contact address
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Anusandhan Bhawan, 2 Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001, India
April 11th, 2010 at 11:48 am
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