Constituted in August 2018, the Prime Minister's Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) serves as an overarching council to assess the status of various science and technology-related matters, comprehend challenges, formulate interventions, develop a futuristic roadmap, and advise the Prime Minister accordingly. The council also oversees the implementation of these interventions by concerned S&T departments, agencies, and other government ministries. PM-STIAC also mandates formulation, convergence, collaboration, coordination, and implementation of multi-stakeholder policy initiatives, mechanisms, reforms, and programmes. These initiatives are aimed at synergising collaborative science and technology; enabling future preparedness; formulating and coordinating S&T missions; providing an enabling ecosystem for technoentrepreneurship; driving innovation, and technology, developing innovation clusters, and fostering effective public-private linkages among other responsibilities.
Several missions, aligned with the national interest, have been approved by the PM-STIAC to date. Among them, the Deep Ocean Exploration Mission, AI (Artificial Intelligence) Mission, National Quantum Mission, National One Health Mission, Electric Vehicle Mission have been approved for implementation.
