Q. Consider the following statements about National Institute of Nutrition (NIN):
1. It is an Indian Public health, Nutrition and Translational research center located in Hyderabad.
2. It was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as ‘Beri-Beri’ Enquiry Unit.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: C
Notes:
About National Institute of Nutrition:
- The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is an Indian Public health, Nutrition and Translational research center located in Hyderabad.
- The institute is one of the oldest research centers in India, and the largest center, under the Indian Council of Medical Research, located in the vicinity of Osmania University.
- It was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as ‘Beri-Beri’ Enquiry Unit in a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.
- Within a short span of seven years, this unit blossomed into a “Deficiency Disease Enquiry” and later in 1928, emerged as full-fledged “Nutrition Research Laboratories” (NRL) with Dr. McCarrison as its first Director.
- It was later shifted to Hyderabad in 1958.
- At the time of its golden jubilee in 1969, it was renamed as National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).
Source: ForumIAS
