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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Objectives
To ensure India has pragmatic policies to facilitate utilisation of the latest technologies for economic growth and sustainable development.
Advise the Government on priorities and strategies for research on emerging technologies across sectors.
Maintain an updated map of technology and technology products available, and being developed, across India.
Develop an indigenization roadmap for selected key technologies.
Advise the Government on its technology supplier and procurement strategy.
Encourage both State & Central government to develop in-house expertise in policy and use aspects of emerging technologies.
Formulate policies for sustainability of public sector technology at PSUs/Labs
Encouraging cross-sector collaborations and research alliances with Universities and Private Companies.
Formulate standards and common vocabulary for vetting of proposals for R&D
Pillars of Empowered Technology Group
Policy Guidance
Procurement Support
R&D Support
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
MISSION DIRECTOR
Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India
Members
Chairman , Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman, Space Commission
Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation
Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Secretary, D/o Telecommunication
Secretary, D/o Science & Technology
ETG will be supported by Technology Advisory Group (TAG) comprising 10 members from academia and 10 members from industry.
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 9 members from Academia and 9 members from Industry and other important sectors.
Academia
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. Abhay Karandikar
Secretary
Department of Science & Technology (DST)
Prof. V. Kamakoti
Director
IIT Madras
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy
Former Director
IIT Madras
Prof. Chintan Vaishnav
Chair Startup 20 Engagement group under G20 India Presidency
Mission Director-Atal Innovation Mission; Sundararajan Chair Visiting Professor, IISc-Bengaluru
Prof. Navakanta Bhat
Professor
IISc. Bangalore
Dr. Anil Prabhakar
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
Dr. Ashish K. Lele
Director
CSIR-NCL
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.
National Digital Livestock Mission
Concerned Ministry(ies)/Department(s): Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying
The Office of PSA invited a Fellow with international experience to assist the DAHD to set up a blueprint for the National Digital Livestock Mission. This collaboration between DAHD and the Office of PSA resulted in a reimagined architecture for India's livestock management. The NDLM is currently being rolled out by the department.
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.
Urban Innovation Stack and SmartProcure
Concerned Ministry(ies)/Department(s): Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Procurement of innovative products that do not have competitors in the market becomes difficult in a tender-based regime. In many cases, products directly meeting a stated need cannot be procured due to this limitation. An experimental regime for such situations has been devised in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, starting with the Smart Cities Mission. This system comprises a two-sided innovation discovery marketplace, CiX, and procurement guidelines called SmartProcure. The Smart Cities will be able to scope out potential technologies on the CiX platform, develop solutions collaboratively with startup companies, and provide orders through the SmartProcure guidelines
The AGNIi mission will be assisting the Smart Cities Mission to support the cities in the uptake of the SmartProcure system, including designing some early projects.
Urban Innovation Stack and SmartProcure
Technology Upgradation in CPSEs
Upgrading disaster response via Indian technologies
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