Achievements of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research are listed below:

Achievements of CSIR

• Breakthrough in flowering of Bamboo within weeks as against twenty years in nature.
• First to analyze genetic diversity of the indigenous tribes of Andaman and their origin out of Africa some 60,000 years back.
• First to analyze genetic diversity of the indigenous  tribes of Andaman and their origin out of Africa  some 60,000 years back.
• Developed the first transgenic Drosophila model for drug screening for Human Cancer.
• First to introduce DNA fingerprinting in India.
• Helped India to be the Pioneer Investor under the UN law of Sea Treaty.
• 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.
• Assisted more than 50,000 companies with turnover ranging from Rs 5 lakhs to Rs 500 crores.
• Revamped India’s first oil 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.
• Developed, multifunctional portable PC-based software ‘Bio-Suite’ for bioinformatics.
• Design of 14 seater plane ‘SARAS’.
• Established the first ever ‘Traditional Knowledge Digital Library’ accessible in 8 international languages.
• Remained in Top 3 in the list of PCT patent applications amongst all developing countries.
• Topped list of USA patents holders.
• Successfully challenged the patent claim in the USA for use of Haldi (turmeric) for wound healing and Neem as insecticide.