Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) is an autonomous research institute dedicated to inland fisheries management and augmentation under the

Indian Council of Agricultural Research The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is an autonomous body responsible for co-ordinating agricultural education and research in India. It reports to the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture. Th ...

Government of India The Government of India ( ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...

. It was established on 17 March 1947 as the Central Inland Fisheries Research Station at

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, under the

Ministry of Food and Agriculture Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian mi ...

. In 1959 this research station was elevated to the status of "Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, and moved to its own building at

Barrackpore Barrackpore (also known as Barrackpur) is a city and a municipality of urban Kolkata of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is also a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (K ...

. In 1967 the institute came under the administrative control of the

(ICAR), New Delhi.

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*http://www.cifri.res.in/ Research institutes in Kolkata Multidisciplinary research institutes Research institutes established in 1947 University of Calcutta Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology 1947 establishments in West Bengal Research institutes in West Bengal Indian Council of Agricultural Research 1959 establishments in West Bengal {{WestBengal-university-stub