Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology houses large number of molecular biology and biotechnological research instruments. The Instrumentation Engineering Division is responsible for the installation, maintenance and repair of laboratory instruments in RGCB. By attending to many essential repair works of instruments, dependence on expensive maintenance contracts with dealers has been reduced. The instrumentation Division also carries out design, modification, and fabrication of research instruments.

The Division also maintains a well equipped engineering workshop with facilities required for the repair and calibration of the sophisticated instruments as its part. Repair up to the PCB level is done here reducing the downtime and repair costs.

The Instrumentation Division also maintains the Centralized Instrumentation facilities, Computers, PC based security surveillance system, Biometrics Time Attendance recorders, Conferencing facilities, Communication systems, Liquid Nitrogen Plant, Incinerator, Auditoriums, convention Centre etc. It also carries out the supervision of 11KV electrical substation, 340 ton AC plant and 750 KVA DG set. All minor electrical works required by the scientific staff also carries out by the in house engineering department.