India News: Dr Raghavendra Bhatta, based in Udupi and serving as the director of the National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology in Bengaluru, has taken
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Parveen Arora
THE National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), a pioneering institute working in the field of dairy research and education since 1923, has again bagged the top position in the country in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s (ICAR) Agricultural Universities Ranking. It is the fourth time in a row that the NDRI has achieved this distinction. The institute had received the Sardar Patel Outstanding Institute Award in the dairy sector in 2014.
Originally started as Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in Bangalore in 1923, the institute was named NDRI after Independence. It was shifted to Karnal in 1955. In 1989, it got the status of a deemed university. National icons like Mahatma Gandhi and Madan Mohan Malaviya received training from this institute when it was based in Bangalore. The NDRI has two regional stations: southern (Bengaluru) and eastern (Kalyani).