BCSIR traces its roots back to the days of
East Pakistan. East Regional Laboratories of
Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) was established in
Dhaka in 1955. Subsequently, PCSIR laboratories were established in
Rajshahi (1965) and in
Chittagong (1967). After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, BCSIR was established by a resolution of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh which subsequently was reconstituted as the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research through a Presidential Ordinance namely Ordinance No. (V) of 1978. ==Gallery==