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India had been a shipper of salt for quite a while as her very own generation was not adequate to satisfy the need. The position weakened further after parcel, when the broad shake salt stores in the Punjab and the marine salt works in Sind went to Pakistan. Not long after the accomplishment of autonomy in 1947, India was looked with the issue of gathering the intense lack of palatable salt in different pieces of the nation. The Government set up an inter­departmental board of trustees under the chairmanship of Shri H.M. Patel, who was then the Cabinet Secretary, to analyze and provide details regarding the measures for beating the lack of salt. The panel presented a few momentary proposition to the Government and furthermore prescribed that a Salt Expert Committee ought to be selected to research into the issues identifying with the generation, quality and usage of salt. 

The requirement for salt research was perceived by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi as ahead of schedule as 1940, when, at the occasion of Dr.S.S.Bhatnagar, a Salt Research Committee was set up to detail a program of research on the generation and usage of salt. This Committee was later amalgamated with the Heavy Chemicals Committee and restored in July 1948 with Dr. Mata Prasad as the Chairman. 

In April 1948, the Government of India comprised a Salt Expert Committee under the chairmanship of Shri P.A. Narielwala to exhort the Government on the measures important to put the Indian salt industry on a sound balance. In the wake of inspecting various salt works in India, the Committee reached the resolution that if the nature of salt is to be improved and the salt works are to work monetarily and proficiently, it would be fundamental (I) to give more consideration regarding research, (ii) that model plants be set up in the chief salt delivering focuses to fill in as exhibit units for both little scale and enormous scale assembling, and (iii) that examination stations be set up to investi­gate techniques for improving the quality and the yield of salt and furthermore of recuperating the by­products. 

In September 1951, Shri C.C. Desai, the then Secretary of the Ministry of Works, Production and Supply, recommended that a Central Salt Research Institute be built up under the aegis of CSIR for doing research on marine salt, and salt from inland lakes and sub-soil brackish water. It was recommended that the Institute be situated at some middle in Saurashtra; the Ministry of Work