Introduction
The Empowered Technology Group (ETG) was constituted by the Cabinet as an institutionalised structure to proactively lay down, coordinate, and oversee national-level policies relating to procurement and induction, and research and development in technologies that require large outlays in resources both financial and human and to render sound and timely advice for determining direction and trajectory of Government's R&D and Technology Development Programmes.
Empowered Technology Group (ETG) aims to proactively lay down, coordinate, and oversee national-level policies relating to
- Procurement and Induction of technologies.
- Research and Development (R&D) in technologies that require large outlays in resources, both financial and human.
- Render sound and timely advice for determining direction and trajectory of Government's R&D and Technology Development Programmes.
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Pillars of Empowered Technology Group
Policy Guidance
- Guide policy formulation in the development and use of technologies that emanate from multiple disciplines of science and engineering.
- Develop a long-term technology roadmap and lay down a plan for indigenization of key technologies.
- Ensure that each Department/Ministry has a 'Technology officer' who is mandated to monitor technology development in the Department/Ministry, develop prospective plans on the technology requirements and plan adaptation of globally available new and emerging technologies.
- Review technology adaptation of at least one Department during each of its meetings.
- Develop a strategy to influence the international discourse on key technologies and for furthering India's interests in those domains.
- Render advice to promote the private sector and global investment in R&D, education, and skills related to emerging technologies.
- Render advice on policy to optimize the use of all capabilities developed or procured by India through sharing with other public or private sector players, including recoupment of federal investments through sharing charges.
- Review and recommend technologies and technology products that are obsolete and do not need to be procured by the Central or State/ Union Territory Governments and various entities under them.
Empowered Technology Group
Members
Our Stakeholders
Scientific and line ministries
State governments
R&D labs
CPSEs
Industry
Structure of Technology Advisory Group (TAG)
ETG is being supported by the Technology Advisory Group (TAG) comprising 8 members from Academia and 9 members from Industry and other important sectors.
Dr. Shailesh Nayak
Director
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Dr. Renu Swarup
Former Secretary
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Prof. V. Kamakoti
Director
IIT Madras
Prof. Navakanta Bhat
Professor
IISc. Bangalore
Dr. Ashish K. Lele
Director
CSIR-NCL
Prof. V Ramgopal Rao
Group Vice-Chancellor
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
Prof. G D Yadav
Former Vice Chancellor
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
Prof. Anurag Agarwal
Head, Koita Center for Digital Health at Ashoka
Dean, BioSciences and Health Research, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University
Dr. K. Balasubramanian
Distinguished Scientist and Director
NFTDC, Hyderabad
Policy Guidance
The Office of PSA has been engaging with several ministries and departments to improve the policy landscape, to make it more inclusive and open. In this process, the office has consulted respective stakeholder groups for devising policy reforms for promoting innovation and tech transfer in the space sector, responsive regulatory processes in remote sensing, easy access to geospatial data, and others.
Procurement support
ETG secretariat is engaging with Technology Officers to support the adoption of technology in ministry’s functioning and service delivery. ETG secretariat has received a list of about 180+ problem statements across 35 departments and ministries. The secretariat has identified several potential partners for provisioning solutions to the line ministries/departments.
