Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - CSIR Achievements

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 cancer in humans.
• First to introduce DNA fingerprinting in India.
• Helped India to be the first Pioneer Investor under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
• 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 in five international languages, English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish.
• Remained in Top 3 in the list of PCT patent applications amongst all developing countries.
• Topped list of holders of U.S. patents.
• Successfully challenged the grant of patent in the USA for use of haldi (turmeric) for wound healing and neem as insecticide.
• In 2009, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has completed the Human Genome Sequencing.
• In 2011, successfully tested India's 1st indigenous civilian aircraft, NAL NM5 made in association with National Aerospace Laboratories and Mahindra Aerospace.