CSIO-Indo Swiss Training Center (ISTC) was set up in the year 1963 as a team with the Swiss Foundation for Technical Assistance, Switzerland. It was officially introduced on eighteenth December, 1963 by the late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the principal Prime Minister of India. Since its commencement, the Center has progressed significantly and made its quality felt at the provincial and the national level. The Center has interdisciplinary projects tuned in to worldwide patterns in specialized instruction. 

The interesting philosophy of the training focused preparing in ISTC is learning by doing while at the same time working with the most recent innovation with exactness and accuracy, touching off new thoughts and advancement. The correct work propensities, an awareness of other's expectations, co-activity and initiative characteristics are accentuated all the while. 

A front line is given to ISTCians by sorting out games and games, blood gift camps, NCC and other co-curricular exercises during the time which soak up in them, promptness and loyalty, responsibility and earnestness, cooperation and pride in labor. 

The Center additionally invests heavily in its graduated class who have built up their very own assembling units and are exceeding expectations as business people. Others have discovered their approach to far away goals like USA, Australia, Canada, China, Singapore and so forth. 

ISTC is a fundamental piece of CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIR-CSIO).