Ajay Kumar Sood has been appointed Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India. He succeeds K. Vijay Raghavan.
- Dr. Ajay Kumar Sood has been appointed for a period of three years. He is a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) and is a physicist known for his work on graphene. He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
About Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA)
- In November 1999, Cabinet Secretariat established the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
- The Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) office coordinates with several Ministries and advises the government on science and technology policies and interventions that are of strategic socio-economic importance.
- It also advises institutions, academia and industry. The PM-STIAC is one of the catalysts for such tasks and also oversees the implementation of the tasks.
- The Office of PSA supported by the project management team at Invest India, is facilitating the delivery and progress of all Nine national missions under PM-STIAC.
- Four of the nine missions, Deep Ocean Mission, National Language Translation mission, AI mission, and Quantum Frontier mission have been approved.
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