About us

CSIR-National Physical Laboratory is the National Metrology Institute (NMI) of India and maintains Indian Standard Time (IST).

Mandate

Metrology

• To develop measurement and calibration standards that are internationally accepted and are among the best in the world.
• To offer metrology services to the industry and to the problems of national interest including for legal metrology.
• To develop reference standard materials, Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND).

Research

• To conduct multidisciplinary R&D to develop the measurement standards for evergreen and futuristic technologies like solar cells, bio-medical, and quantum information processing.
• To develop sophisticated analytical equipment under the Government of India’s Make in India initiative.

Skill development

To train a large pool of young scientists and industry personnel under the Skill India Initiative.