The HRD Group of NPL is a constituent group of SASD 8 & represents a central group of the laboratory providing a wide range of HRD services. It undertakes several activities in various areas of core competence of the lab and also related to research scholars/students.

The basic object behind these activities is to make the Human Resource better informed, knowledgeable and highly skilled & trained so that it can prove to be more competitive, productive and useful to the society and the country.

HRD Group is involved in various activities, such as :-

An important activity of the HRD Group is to organise Training Courses on various physical parameters in the area of Metrology / Standards, as well as on other specialised topics, and are primarily meant for personnel belonging to various industries, Testing & Calibration laboratories and other S & T organisations.

Besides the external training courses, efforts were also made to formulate new training programmes for the exclusive benefit and welfare of the NPL staff members. The basic objective was to provide the staff members good training in the area of relevance to their duties, so that they could perform in a more competent, productive and useful manner. Accordingly, 3 new training programmes were properly designed and executed also.

Dissemination of HRD-related information to the NPL staff members is another important task performed by the HRD Group. More than 200 different types of HRD-related papers were displayed at 4-5 prominent places of the laboratory each, during the year 2007-2008.

NPL encourages and supports its staff members, including the floating members like JRFs, SRFs, PAs, RIs, RAs, SRAs, etc., to attend and present papers at national / international conferences / symposia / seminars / workshops, organised by different agencies in areas relevant to research activities being carried out at NPL. This is primarily meant to enable the staff members to put forward their views and research results before the leading national / international experts and interact with them on the latest developments in their research areas.

One of the most prominent activities of the HRD Group is to provide help and support to Research Fellows (JRFs / SRFs), starting from the time they join NPL till the time they leave NPL. This includes their placement in aparticular Division / Group and helping them in getting Hostel accommodation, if required. This also includes their Ph.D. registration, assessment for continuance / upgradation, deputation to attend conferences, etc. Seventeen (17) fresh Research Fellows were inspired to join NPL during the year 2007-2008.

NPL provides both Short Term (Minimum Six Weeks to Six Months or so) and Long Term One Year or so) training to students pursuing M.Sc. / B.Tech. / M.Tech. / MCA, or their equivalent degree programmes, at different educational institutions spread all over the country. During the year 2007- 2008, over 200 students were provided training, oriented towards the fulfillment of their academic degree requirements, in different areas of research.