The human capital being the most critical and valuable asset of CSIR, focused human resource development groups have been setup in laboratories. The main task of these groups designed as Human Resource Groups (HRGs) is to organize and nucleate human resource management activities in the laboratory. The HRGs have the following functions:

• Plan for current, future HR requirements of the Laboratory
• Assessing of laboratory specific training needs
• Organizing customized training programmes
• Interaction & coordination with CSIR-HRDC