CDRI administratively
functions under the council of scientific
and Industrial Research of India which has
its headquarter at New Delhi. CSIR is an
autonomous umbrella organization funded
by the Central Government. CSIR of India
is considered to be the largest public funded
R&D organization, which has such a large
number of well-trained scientific manpowers.
The Prime Minister of India who governs
it as its president heads CSIR. The minister
of science and Technology is normally the
vice President. The Director General of
CSIR is chosen from among the pool of senior
scientists of CSIR laboratories who has
the onus of framing guidelines and directions
for all the laboratories under its control.
There are altogether thirty-eight laboratories
under CSIR where R & D work on almost
all areas of scientific and industrial
arena is being carried out. The laboratories
of CSIR are spread over almost all area
of this vast nation. The field stations
numbering eighty are situated in various
parts of the country. CSIR has a huge
manpower of more than twenty thousand
out of which seventy five percent of people
are in scientific and technical cadre.
Every individual holds expertise in his
own area of activity. The annual government
budget of CSIR is about a thousand crore
of rupees apart from the receipt that
CSIR gets from its own technologies and
products. The technologies and products
developed by CSIR have been in extensive
use. It is estimated that nearly six thousand
crore worth of products are being manufactured
using technologies developed by CSIR.
