CSIR was founded in 1942 and has headquarter in Delhi.

The president of CSIR i s ex- officio of prime minister . The Central Electrochemical Research Institute in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadir. The Central Electronics Engineering Institute in Pilani, Rajasthan. The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute in Calcutta. The Central Leather Research Institute in Madras. The Indian Institute of Petroleum in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh. The National Metallurgical Laboratory in Jamshedpur, Bihar. The National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi. The key policy-planning body for India's nuclear energy program is the Atomic Energy Commission, which was founded in 1948 and has offices in New Delhi and Bombay.The chairman of the commission is concurrently the secretary of t he Department of Atomic Energy (later the Ministry of Atomic Energy), which was established in 1954 (with Homi Bhabha as is first head) There are two units each in Tarapur, north of Bombay in Maharashtra; in Rawatbh ata in Rajasthan; in Kalpakkam near Madras in Tamil Nadu; and in Narora in Uttar Pr adesh; and one unit in Kakrapur in southeastern Gujarat. Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee Centre for Biochemical Technology, New Delhi Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani Central Fuel Research Institute, Dhanbad Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Calcutta Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Lucknow Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur Central Mining Research Institute, Dhanbad Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling & Computer Simulation, Bangalore CSIR Madras Complex, Chennai Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute Bhavnagar Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, New Delhi Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow National Chemical Laboratory, Pune National Environmental Engineering Research Institute Nagpur National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad National Institute of Oceanography, Goa National Institute of Science Communication, New Delhi National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New D elhi National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi

Regional Research Laboratory, Bhopal Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram Member of the Advisory Board of CSIR Other Science Departments Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad Department of Ocean Development, New Delhi Department of Space, Bangalore/New Delhi Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi Central Electronics Limited, Ghaziabad National Research Development Corporation New Delhi Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi Indian Agricutural Research Institute, New Delhi Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore