Modi opens Forensic Science Laboratory at Rajkot

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated newly built regional Forensic Science Laboratory in Rajkot.

FSL offices are active at Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Junagadh presently.

Rajkot’s new two-floor FSL building has been constructed at a cost of Rs 5.24 crore in 65000 sq ft area. The office will enjoy purview over Rajkot city, Rajkot rural, Surendranagar, Jamnagar, and Kutch districts.

Rajkot office of FSL is equipped with chemical, toxicology, biology, physics, ballistic, finger print and photography departments.

Inaugurating the new FSL facility, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said, Gujarat is the first state in the country to proudly posses a Forensic Science University in which three departments are running 11 courses and five online training programmes. Gujarat is also the first state in the country that operates forensic science laboratory specially for wild life. Moreover the state has 33 mobile Forensic Science Laboratories and also a mobile van to check illegal bovine beef trafficking menace.