Ndri: One of strong causes of holding country’s highest milk production status in the world on a sustainable basis

National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is India's premier institute for dairy research, established in 1955, located in Karnal, Haryana, having been accorded with the status of Deemed University since 1989. NDRI operates under the aegis of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal was established in the year 1923 in Bangalore as Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry and Dairying. In 1947, the institute was renamed as National Dairy Research Institute. Later in 1955, the college was shifted to Karnal. NDRI offers various courses such as diploma programme in DT & Animal Husbandry & Dairying, undergraduate programme (B.Tech in Dairy Technology), postgraduate programme in Dairying, and diploma of philosophy. Situated on the sprawling 560 hectare campus at Karnal, NDRI has over 1800 dairy animals with modern milking parlour system and shelter management system catering to breed improvement projects and other research activities, number of labs equipped with the state-of-the-art analytical instrument to conduct research in most advanced areas of biotechnology, molecular biology, cell structure, fermentation technology, protein chemistry, nutritional studies, food technology and micro element analysis.Nearly 160 highly qualified and experienced scientists and 185 technical staff, in addition to administrative and supporting staff, work at NDRI to run its research and academic programmes having total annual budget of over Rs 215 crores.