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Botanical Survey of India
भारतीय वनस्पति सर्वेक्षण
AbbreviationBSI
Formation13 February 1890; 134 years ago (13 February 1890)
TypeBotanical garden
HeadquartersKolkata, West Bengal, India
Location
  • Kolkata, West Bengal
Region served
India
Parent organization
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India
Websitewww.bsi.gov.in

Botanical Survey of India (BSI) is a botanical garden located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was founded on 13 February 1890, is Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's organization for survey, research and conservation of plant resources, flora and endangered species of India, including by collecting and maintaining germplasm and gene bank of endangered, patent and vulnerable plant species.

BSI (botany) as well as ASI (archaeology), FiSI (fisheries), FSI (forests), GSI (geology), IIEE (ecology), NIO (oceanography), RGCCI (population survey) and language survey), SI (cartography) and ZSI (zoology) are key national survey organizations of India.

History

Sir George King founder ex-officio Director of Botanical Survey of India

BSI was formally instituted by East India Company (EIC) on 13 February 1890[1] under the direction of Sir George King who became first ex-officio director, earlier he had been superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta since 1871. The Calcutta Garden became the headquarters of the Survey and was given regional responsibility for Bengal, Assam, North East, Burma, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.[2]

Prior to 1890, EIC had already established botanical gardens at Sibpur, pune, Saharanpur and Madras as centres for improving botanical knowledge and experimentation under the local Governments, for example Saharanpoor botanical garden, dating earlier than 1750, was acquired by EIC in 1817 for growing medicinal plants.[3] Most of the EIC botanical gardens' work was for the cultivation of plants for exploiting resources of India for commerce and trade.[2]

Academic and research program

Botanical Survey of India also offers Fellowship for doing research in Plant Taxonomy and also offers post doctorate fellowships to those who are trained in Taxonomy and want to continue their research related to the mandate of BSI.[2]

Publications

Apart from the Publishing Flora of India series books, states floras, flora of Protected regions and Red Data Book of Indian Plants, BSI have also known for its various annual publications some of them are:[4]

Plant Discoveries: Plant Discoveries is an annual bilingual publication of Botanical Survey of India, having most authentic information on India's plant wealth. As per recent release of Plant Discoveries 2018 by Botanical Survey of India on World Environment Day, there is total of 18666 species of angiosperms, 82 species of gymnosperms, 1302 species of pteridophytes, 15396 species of fungi, 7411 species of algae, 2780 species of bryophytes, 2581 species of lichens and 1223 species of microbes in India, which is approximately 11.5 percent of total recorded plant species in world. Since its reorganization, in 1954, BSI officials described 01 new families, 43 new genus and 1666 new species and infra-specific taxon. During 2018, total 438 plants has been discovered by scientist of BSI and other institutes.[5] Nelumbo is a biannual journal published by the Botanical Survey of India. The journal is peer-reviewed and authentic journal of plant taxonomy and plant sciences. As per recent NAAS rating 2019 the journal rated 4.17.[6][7]

The Great Banyan Tree of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden at Kolkata, a Botanical Survey of India garden.

See also

References

  1. ^ Botanical Survey of India (BSI) "History", Botanical Survey of India. Archived 24 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c BSI
  3. ^ The Saharánpur Botanic Garden", Natural History Museum, London
  4. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325644547_Plant_Discoveries_2017
  5. ^ http://www.nelumbo-bsi.org/index.php/nlmbo/pages/view/aj
  6. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330107446_List_of_new_journals_with_NAAS_Scores_2019_-National_Academy_of_Agricultural_Sciences-_ICAR-_New_Delhi
  7. ^ http://bsi.gov.in/Publication/239_1_PublicationLists.aspx
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