Headquarters (Kolkata)

The objectives of ZSI are classified as follows:

Primary Objectivess

  • Director
  • Additional Director, Joint Director. Deputy Directors & Scientists of Various Ranks.
  • Publication Production Officer
  • Senior Administrative Officer
  • Administrative Officer
  • Accounts Officer
  • Stores Officer

A. Administrative Sections:

  • General Administration Section
  • Establishment Section
  • Accounts Section
  • Technical Section
  • Stores Section

B. Scientific Division and Sections:

I. LOWER INVERTEBRATE DIVISION

  • Protozoology Section
  • General Non- Chordata Section
  • Platyhelminthes Section
  • Nemathelminthes Section

II. MOLLUSCA DIVISION

  • Mollusca Section

III. CRUSTACEA DIVISION

  • Crustacea Section

IV. ENTOMOLOGY (A) DIVISION

  • Central Entomological Laboratory (C.E.L.)
  • Isoptera Section
  • Lepidoptera Section
  • Hymenoptera Section
  • Coleoptera Section
  • Insect Ecology Section

V. ENTOMOLOGY (B) DIVISION

  • Apterygota Section
  • Orthoptera Section
  • Miscellaneous Insect Orders Section
  • Hemiptera Section
  • Diptera Section

VI. ARACHNOLOGY DIVISION

  • Acarology Section
  • Arachnida Section

VII. FISH DIVISION

  • Marine Fish Section
  • Freshwater Fish Section

VIII. HERPETOLOGY DIVISION

  • Protochordata & Amphibia Section
  • Reptilia Section

IX. HIGHER CHORDATA DIVISION

  • Bird Section
  • Mammal & Osteology Section

X. PALAEOZOOLOGY DIVISION

  • nvertebrate Palaeozoology Section
  • Vertebrate Palaeozoology Section
  • Prehistoric Zoology Section

XI. ECOLOGY & ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR DIVISION

  • Animal Population Section
  • Animal Behaviour Section
  • Soil Zoology Section

XII. WILD LIFE & CONSERVATION DIVISION

  • Wild Life Section

XIII. MUSEUM & TAXIDERMY DIVISION

  • Museum & Taxidermy Section

XIV. FIELD SURVEY DIVISION

XV. IDENTIFICATION & ADVISORY DIVISION

  • Identification Section

XVI. PUBLICATION DIVISION

  • Publication Section
  • Press Section

XVII. INFORMATION & DOCUMENTA­TION DIVISION

  • Documentation Section

XVIII. FAUNA OF INDIA PROJECT DIVISION

XIX. TRAINING & EXTENSION DIVISION

  • Post-Graduate Training Section

C. OTHER SCIENTIFIC SECTIONS:

  • Director's Laboratory
  • Cytotaxonomy Research Laboratory
  • Key Zoological Section

D. REGIONAL AND FIELD CENTRES:

  • North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong , Meghalaya (Estd. 1959)
  • Western Regional Centre, Pune, Maharashtra (Estd. 1959)
  • Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (Estd. 1960)
  • Desert Regional Centre, Jodhpur, Rajasthan (Estd. 1960)
  • Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun, Uttarakhand (Estd. 1960)
  • Southern Regional Centre, Chennai,Tamil Nadu (Estd. 1961)
  • Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Patna, Bihar (Estd. 1965)
  • High Altitude Regional Centre, Solan, Himachal Pradesh (Estd. 1968)
  • Marine Biology Regional Centre, Chennai,Tamil Nadu ( Estd. 1973)
  • Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair Port Blair (Estd. 1975)
  • Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Estd. 1979)
  • Sunderbans Regional Centre, Canning , West Bengal (Estd. 1979)
  • Estuarine Research Centre, Ganjam, Orissa (Estd. 1980)
  • Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode ( Calicut), Kerala (Estd. 1980)
  • Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh (Estd 1983)
  • Marine Aquarium- cum-Regional Centre, Digha , West Bengal (Estd 1989)