Botanical Survey of India

Botanical Survey of India
Bharatiya Vanaspathi Sarvekshan

BSI Industrial Section at Kolkata
Government of India research organization overview
FormedFebruary 13, 1890 (1890-02-13)
JurisdictionIndia
HeadquartersKolkata, West Bengal, India
Annual budget₹1.36 billion (US$16 million) (2025–26)
Minister responsible
Parent departmentMinistry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Websitebsi.gov.in

Botanical Survey of India (BSI) is an Indian governmental research institution headquartered in Kolkata. It was founded on 13 February 1890 during the British Raj, and is currently under the purview of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India. The agency is broadly responsible for research and conservation of the flora of India, botanical surveys, collecting and maintaining germplasm, and gene bank of endangered, patent and vulnerable plant species, and contributing to taxonomic research.

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