Icar : National Dairy Research Institute , Southern Regional Station (Srs), Bangalore

We are located over on Hosur Road in the Adugodi area of Bangalore. This is the Southern Regional Station for the National Dairy Research Institute, though most people just call us NDRI. It is a big place with plenty of cows and laboratories spread across the grounds. Because it is a government research station, there is usually a fair amount of paperwork to deal with every day. You can smell the farm as soon as you walk in from the main road, which is a big change from the city traffic outside. Scientists here spend their time looking at milk samples and checking on the cattle. Students also come and go quite a bit for their classes. We try to keep the fields and buildings tidy, but it is a lot of space to manage. Working with dairy means the day starts very early. The gates at Adugodi are usually busy when the shifts change over. We do not do any advertising because most people in the dairy world already know we are here. It is more of a practical working station than a polished office. If you ever visit, you should wear shoes that you do not mind getting a little dirty from the farm soil. We just keep doing the research and teaching the next group of people. That is the daily routine on Hosur Road. We have been part of the Adugodi landscape for decades now.