PRIME MINISTER’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL (PM-STIAC)

About:

• Mandate: To act as a high-level advisory body to several ministries and execute mission-oriented programmes.
  
  
• Composition: The 9-member PM-STIAC will be headed by Government of India’s Principal Scientific Adviser to (K. Vijay Raghavan). Other 8 members are –
  • K. Saraswat, former chief of DRDO;
    
    
  • S. Kiran Kumar, former Chairman of ISRO;
    
    
  • Manjul Bhargava, Professor, Princeton University;
    
    
  • Baba Kalyani, MD, Bharat Forge (the lone member from industry);
    
    
  • Ajay Kumar Sood, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru;
    
    
  • Madhuri Kanitkar, Dean, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune;
    
    
  • Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay, Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and
    
    
  • Subhash Kak, Professor, Oklahoma State University.
    
    
  
  
  
• Special Invitees: Unlike in the earlier SACs, secretaries of various scientific Ministries such as education, environment and health would be ‘special invitees’ to the council meetings.