BCSIR

The glorious journey of the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) commenced in 1955 as a multidisciplinary research unit “East Regional Laboratories” of PCSIR. Since then this organization has been involved in performing scientific and industrial research for achieving self-reliance in industrial development.

Being the leading Research and Development (R&D) organization of Bangladesh, BCSIR is conducting R&D works according to the national demand and contributing to accelerate the economic vibrancy for more than 50 years. During this period BCSIR has expanded its domain to three full-fledged multi-disciplinary regional laboratories, six mono disciplinary institutes, and one center for pilot plant studies

BCSIR is providing the following important services to the nation:

1. Develop technology through R&D activities and transfer the developed technologies to entrepreneurs for industrialization,
2. Conduct different programmes such as dissemination of appropriate technology, organization of science fair, training programmes, seminar, etc,
3. Provide technical and analytical supports to the industries, government and non-government organizations, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs),
4. Provide testing services to entrepreneurs for examining the quality of locally produced and imported products with international level testing facilities,
5. Perform analytical test for the presence of tetracycline and nitrofuran metabolites in the exported shrimp as per the requirement of the European Union,
6. Supervise and guide M. Sc., M. Phil, and Ph.D. students for their thesis from different universities.