Introduction
 

          The Forest Research Centre (FRC), Hyderabad, of Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education started functioning under the administrative control of Institute of Wood Science and Technology Bangalore, since July,1997. . The centre was initially known as “ Advanced Centre for Biotechnology and Mangrove Forests”. This, however was changed to “Forest Research Centre, Hyderabad “ , vide Letter No. 34-1/90-ICFRE Dated 9th July,1997.The office cum laboratory building work started in March 1998 and the same was handed over to the centre on 1st March, 2000 .The building complex was formally inaugurated by the Hon’ble Minister of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India, Sri. T.R. Balu in November 2000. And the research work started from 2000-2001 onwards to meet the research needs of the southern dry deciduous ecosystem of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa on all aspects in the field of forestry Research

Location:

          The Centre was established in a sprawling 100 Acre campus on the outskirts of Hyderabad ,Andhra Pradesh, India, about 22 KM from the Secunderabad Railway Station at Dulapally village on a link road between Kompally (on NH 7) and Bahadurpally Village (on Hyderabad-Narsapur Road).