MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES
(DR. HARSH VARDHAN)
(a) The number of students enrolled in various constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) during the last three years (2015-16 to 2017-18) and the current year (2018-19) is given in the table below:
Sl. No. Laboratory/Institute/Unit Name 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
1 Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal 2 8 9 9
2 Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee 2 2 2 2
3 Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow 133 136 70 91
4 Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 5 5 7 33
5 Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai (regional centre of CEERI, Pilani) 1 1 3 6
6 Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani 7 22 29 33
7 Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru 28 29 15 29
8 Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata 23 23 24 22
9 Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Bangaluru (regional centre of CIMAP, Lucknow) 1 1 1 1
10 Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow 34 34 39 54
11 Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad 2 2 1 2
12 Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai 26 28 11 37
13 Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur 6 6 6 8
14 Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi 2 3 1 2
15 Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar 37 44 47 61
16 Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO),
Chandigarh 5 10 10 16
17 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad 52 62 65 80
18 Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Madras Complex, Chennai 1 1 1 1
19 Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai (regional centre of CEERI, Pilani) - - - 2
20 CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI), Bengaluru 1 1 - 3
21 CSIR- Unit for Research & Development of Information Products (URDIP), Pune - - - 2
22 Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata 109 133 78 119
23 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad 361 405 280 322
24 Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu 8 8 8 42
25 Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun 19 24 27 36
26 Industrial Toxicology Research Institute (IITR), Lucknow 17 17 17 43
27 Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi 54 57 64 104
28 Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur 27 28 31 45
29 Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT), Chandigarh 75 86 99 114
30 Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar 10 10 9 22
31 National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangaluru 2 2 2 4
32 National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow 32 39 24 40
33 National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune 208 235 140 208
34 National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Mumbai (regional centre of NEERI, Nagpur) - - - 1
35 National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur 13 15 15 14
36 National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad 25 27 31 38
37 National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST),
Thiruvananthapuram 75 85 89 120
38 National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa 48 54 56 72
39 National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi (regional centre of NIO, GOA) 3 3 3 5
40 National Institute of Oceanography, Mumbai (regional centre of NIO, GOA) - - - 2
41 National Institute of Oceanography, Visakhapatnam (regional centre of NIO, GOA) - - - 3
42 National Institute of Science Communication And Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi 4 4 4 4
43 National Institute of Science Technology & Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi 3 5 6 10
44 National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur 2 2 2 6
45 National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi 54 70 51 79
46 North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat 7 7 7 14
47 Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Chennai - - - 6
48 Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi 2 3 - -
TOTAL 1526 1737 1384 1967
(b) No, Madam. The number of research scholars in CSIR institutes during 2015-16 was 1526 which has increased to 1967 during 2018-19 (current year).
(c) Does not arise.
(d) CSIR has recently increased the number of JRF-NET fellowships by 100% through CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted in December 2017. It is evident from the fact that in the NET conducted in December 2017, the number of JRF-NET awarded by CSIR for financial support are 4060 compared to 2029 awarded in NET conducted in June 2017. It is further stated that CSIR’s JRF-NET students are free to join any University and R&D institution of their choice including CSIR laboratories to advance their research career and therefore increase in number of JRF-NET fellowship awarded by CSIR will have a positive impact on their joining in CSIR institutes as CSIR laboratories offer the research students the state-of-art infrastructure facilities.
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