New 21-Member Panel To Advise Prime Minister Modi On Science, Tech And Innovation  

A new panel of experts from various fields, which will have 21 members, will advise Prime Minister Narendra Modi on issues related to Science, technology and innovation, NDTV has reported.

The panel — called Prime Minister’s Science, Technology & Innovation Advisory Council — will replace the Scientific Advisory Committee. It will be headed by the principal scientific adviser to the government, K Vijay Raghavan. It will have a chairperson, eight members and 12 special invitees.

Noted mathematician and Princeton University professor Manjul Bharghava; Major General Madhuri Kanitkar, the first woman dean of Army Forces Medical College, Pune; A S Kiran Kumar, former ISRO chief; Ajay Sood, professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Subhash Kak, professor at the Oklahoma State University, United States; and industrialist Baba Kalyani will be the members of the panel.

Kak, a Vedic scholar and the Regents professor of electrical and computer engineering, has written for Swarajya on multiple issues.

Secretaries from at leas 10 ministries, related to science, technology, energy and education, are special invitees to the panel.