CSIR Madras Complex

Welcome to CSIR Madras Complex

The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, established in 1942 with Corporate Office at New Delhi, and a network of 38 national laboratories spread over the country is a premier R&D Organisation in India providing S & T inputs to a diverse spectrum of economic, industrial and societal sectors. The R & D activities covers fields from aerospace engineering to ocean sciences, molecular biology to metallurgy, chemicals to mining, food to petroleum & leather to environment.
In order to foster multidisciplinary research and to cater to the requirements of the southern region, five major laboratories established regional centres at Madras in a single campus which is known as CSIR MADRAS COMPLEX (CMC).


The Five Laboratories having regional centers in the Madras Complex are:

Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi.
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani.
Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh.
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur.
National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur.