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Scientific Adviser
March 27 , 2018
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- Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan was appointed principle scientific adviser to the government of India.
- He will succeed 81-year-old nuclear physicist R Chidambaram, who has been in the position for more than 16 years, having been appointed in 2001.
- Vijay Raghavan, a former director of National Centre for Biological Sciences, was appointed Secretary of Department of Biotechnology in 2013.
Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA)
- The Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), a post created by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1999, is the topmost advisor to the government on all matters related to scientific policy.
- The office of the PSA is one of the three scientific bodies the government relies on for advice on matters relating to science and which act as the interface between scientific institutions and the government.
- The other two are,
- Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM)
- Science Advisory Council to the Cabinet (SAC-C)
- Neither SAC-PM nor SAC-C have been functional under the government
- The Defence Minister has a Scientific Advisor of his/her own.
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