However , the institute was damaged during the devastating Bihar earthquake of 15 January 1934 . The Secretary of State approved the transfer in July , 1934 . The Standing Finance Committee of the Union Assembly finally announced on 25 August 1934 in Shimla , the decision to shift the institute to New Delhi at the approximate cost of . to a place that is now called Pusa in New Delhi . The new campus at New Delhi was inaugurated on 29 July 1936 , while the new building of the Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research was inaugurated by the then Viceroy of India , Lord Linlithgow on 7 November 1936
Bihar earthquake
1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake
Indian Agricultural Research Institute