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Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums (IINRG) (formerly Indian Lac Research Institute (ILRI)) is a Government of India sponsored central institute in India for research and development of lac and other natural gums & resins excluding their production. This includes activities such      as harvesting, processing, product development, training,       information repository, technology dissemination and       national/international cooperation. It operates under the administrative control of ICAR from April 1,1966.

History
During British Raj in India, the then government realizing the strategic importance of Lac constituted Lindsay- Harlow Committee in 1920, to look into all aspects of the      country's lac trade and its development. It was on the suggestions laid down by the committee that the lac merchants organized themselves into the Indian Lac Association for Research, under the aegis of which, the foundation stone       of Indian Lac Research Institute (ILRI) was laid at Ranchi on September       20,1924. Later, the Royal Commission on Agriculture recommended to constitute the Indian Lac Cess      Committee (ILCC), which also organized and maintained the London       Shellac Research Bureau, UK and Shellac Research Bureau and Polytechnique       Institute of Brooklyn, USA; took over the control of the ILRI       on August 1, 1931.