The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India’s leading national research and development institution, is one of the world’s biggest government-funded research and development organisations. The CSIR has a long history of pioneering and ongoing contributions to Science and Technology development of human resources. The Human Resource Development Group (HRDG), a CSIR branch, achieves this goal through different grants, fellowship programmes, and other means. HRDG has made a substantial contribution to the development of an enquiring society and a rapidly rising knowledge economy. A wide spectrum of scientists are covered by these various systems.

The CSIR is engaged in various schemes like research schemes, and grants, there are many others. It also provides various grants for the candidates, one of the major is partial financial assistance (PFA) that is applied and taken up  by thousands of candidates every year.

CSIR also has its own knowledge centre, which consists of a group of its collection basically of the CSIR-HRDG’s technical, scientific, and administrative staff. Along with these services, CSIR conducts examinations for Joint CSIR-UGC NET in a computer-based mode via the National Testing Agency. This test is taken to select the candidates for the post of JRF, that is, Junior Research Fellowship and for the of LS, that is, Lectureship or assistant professor basically for Indian universities and colleges.