Govt forms 21-member scientific advisory panels
28th August, 2018Category: National, Science and Technology
Government of India has constituted a high power committee to advise it on policy matters related to science, technology and innovation. Named as PM-STIAC (Science, Technology, Innovation Advisory Committee), the 21-member committee, including a dozen special invitees, will be chaired by K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government.
The committee will advise the Prime Minister on all matters related to S&T, innovation and monitor the implementation of PM’s vision on the same. PM-STIAC will effectively supersede the SAC-Cabinet and SAC-PM (which were in limbo ever since the Modi Government came to power in 2014), which will now stand dissolved.
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