Premier Indian institution: Forest Research Institute

The Forest Research Institute is an institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is a premier institution in the field of forestry research in India. It is located at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, and is one of the oldest institutions of its kind. In 1991, it was declared a deemed university by the University Grants Commission.

History: Founded in 1878, as the British Imperial Forest School,^[2] by Dietrich Brandis.

In 1906, reestablished as the 'Imperial Forest Research Institute', under the British Imperial Forestry Service.

The 'Indian Forest College' was established in 1938; officers recruited to the Superior Forest Service by the states and provinces were trained there.

Dehradun railway station building bearing the year 1899

Dehradun railway station still bears structural impacts of British colonial architectural look

Bird's eye view of the FRI campus. Picture thankfully shared

FRI as illuminated in night. Picture thankfully shared

FRI as on Indian postage stamp

Beautiful staff cottages in FRI cmpus

Beautiful flowering trees

The front portion of the main building of FRI

Architecture as if everything measured to it's finest

Plants in courtyard as if in perfect relationship with the architecture

Plants in courtyard as if in perfect relationship with the architecture

Plants in courtyard as if in perfect relationship with the architecture and humans

Plants in courtyard as if in perfect relationship with the architecture

Side view of the main building

Every corner bears beauty

Beautiful cool magnanimous corridors

Beautiful cool magnanimous corridors

Beautiful cool magnanimous corridors

Just above the head, ceiling looks as a perfect design, bearing no impact as such long years have passed

Architecture: Established as Imperial Forest Research Institute in 1906, Forest Research Institute (FRI) Dehradun, is a premier institution under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE). Styled in Greeko Roman Architecture by C.G. Blomfield, the main building is a National Heritage which was inaugurated in 1929.

FRI Dehradun is one of the oldest institutions of its kind and acclaimed the world over. The Institute’s history is virtually synonymous with the evolution and development of scientific forestry, not only in India, but over the entire sub-continent. Set in a lush green estate spread over 450 hactares, with the outer Himalaya forming its back drop, the institute’s main building is an impressive edifice, marrying Greco-Roman and Colonial styles of architecture, with a plinth area of 2.5 hactares. The Institute has a developed infrastructure of all equipped laboratories, library, herbarium, arboreta, printing press and experimental field areas for conducting forestry research, quite in keeping with the best of its kind anywhere in the world. It is 7 km from Clock Tower, on the Dehradun-Chakrata motorable road and is of the biggest forest based training institute in India. Most of the forest officers are a product of this institute. The F.R.I. with its majestic building also houses a Botanical Museum for the attraction of tourists.