The magnetic lattice of the storage ring (Indus-1) has four super periods, each consisting of a dipole magnet and two pairs of focussing and defocussing quadrupoles. Indus-1 is designed to extract the synchrotron radiation mainly from the bending magnets. It is planned to install a 3 Tesla superconducting wiggler to bring down the critical wavelength to 31 angstroms. The lattice is designed to have flexibility in operation of the ring and to have stor ed beam with different specifications. In order to achieve a beam life time of a few hours, the pressure in the chamber containing the beam is kept below 1E-9 torr. Indus-1 has a centralized control system. The hardware is based on 16 bit data bus employing VME bus standards. Beam parameters are characterized by beam di agnostics devices.