Indian Veterinary Research Institute

Indian Veterinary Research Institute IVRI Established in 1889, the Indian Veterinary Research Institute IVRI is one of the premier research institutions dedicated to livestock research and development in the region. The institute with a faculty strength of more than 275 has a major mandate of research, teaching, consultancy, and technology transfer activities. The institute with its long scientific heritage has always enjoyed a certain prestige, a tradition all of its own.

Indian Veterinary Research Institute imparts quality post-graduate education to students not only from various parts of the country but also from overseas. Today, the institute with its deemed to be university status contributes immensely to human resource development in the discipline of veterinary sciences with skills and knowledge necessary for the challenges of the new millennium.

It awards degrees to master and doctoral programs in more than 20 disciplines of veterinary and animal sciences, livestock products technology, basic sciences, and extension education. To impart continuing education to field veterinarians, the institute also conducts diploma courses in veterinary preventive medicine, animal husbandry, veterinary biological products, animal reproduction, poultry husbandry, medicine and surgery, zoo and wild animal health care and management, and meat and meat products technology.

The institute’s research is currently addressed with clear benchmarking of deliverables through 89 research and 28 service projects. The institute undertakes basic, advanced, and applied research through 98 externally funded projects. Several national and international research projects on animal health and production systems are addressed by the institute. Presently 5 National Agricultural Innovation Projects,6 NASF Projects 6 All India Network Projects, 3 Outreach Programs, 2 Consortia projects, 39 DBT-funded projects, and 19 Other funded projects are operational. Besides these extramurally funded programs, the institute is having 5 international collaborative projects with the USA, UK, IAEA, etc.