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PM reconstitutes CSIR board

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI Aug. 1. The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in his capacity as the Chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, apex agency for scientific research, has reconstituted its advisory board, at the end of the existing team's three-year tenure.

A salient feature of the change is that there would now be more representation for the academia and the scientific community and less for the industry in the body, which advises the CSIR on the development and implementation of its vision, and reviews major research and development areas.

The industry had four representatives — the Infosys chairman, N. R. Narayanamurthy, the chairman, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, K. Anji Reddy, the chairman of the A. V. Birla Group of companies, K. Kumaramangalam Birla, and the chairman, Wockhardt, H. F. Khorakiwala. It will now have only two representatives — H. S. Singhania, president of the J. K. group of industries, and Raju D. Shroff, chairman and managing director, United Phosphorous.

The academia and the scientific community, which earlier had two representatives, will now have six members in the board. They are N. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, who will also be the new Chairman of the Board, Vijay Bhatakar, chairman, ETH Research Laboratory, Pune, Jitendra Bajaj, Director, Centre for Research Policy Studies, Chennai, Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor of Information Technology, IIT, Chennai, P. Balaram of Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, and Anil Gupta of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. There are also some changes in the representation of Secretaries of Government departments. The Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, Rajeev Ratna Shah, and the Secretary, Department of Ocean Development, Harsh K. Gupta, have been inducted in the place of the Director-General, ICMR, N. K. Ganguly, and the Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ajit Kumar.

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