NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

The National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is a national level institute for breeding technology, feeding technology, fodder demonstration, animal health care and animal management but dissemination of the technical know-how. In 1964 eastern regional station was set up at Kalyani in West Bengal. In 1970, NDRI was brought under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The institute achieved the status of Deemed University from 1989. The circular emblem of the institute has a gear wheel which houses the national emblem of India supported by a cow and milk bottle at the bottom and a pair of corn plants on its sides ensconced by a border which bears the name of the university in Devanagari and its acronym. Below this motif its acronym written in black and red is placed above blurting milk. The gear symbolises industry and automation; interconnectedness; efficiency and precision; progress and advancement; synchronisation and timing and order and structure. The motifs that represent cow and its produce milk with the fodder are the essential domains of study in this university.