Thursday, June 20, 2013: Department of Electronics and IT has constituted the Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC) for Automotive Electronics segment under MSIPS Scheme. Details about the same were revealed in the April issue of DeitY newsletter.
The members of the committee included Prof. Rajat Moona, DG-CDAC as chairman and Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao, institute chair professor, Dept. of Electrical Engg., IIT Bombay, Amrutur Bharadwaj, professor, IISc Bangalore, Shrikant R Marathe, director, Automotive Research Association of India, Pune, B. Ramani, executive director, C-DAC, Thiruvananthpuram and R.C. Meharde, scientist C, DeitY. DeitY may also consider nomination of other experts depending upon the need in the Technical Evaluation Committee. A copy of the order constituting the TEC is available at DeitY website.
According to the newsletter, the committee will provide recommendation regarding the technology proposed by an applicant and whether the said technology is ‘state-of-the-art’ or not as per para 8 of M-SIPS guidelines.
The committee will provide its advice on the submissions with respect to the scope as defined above, made to the committee by DeitY. In cases where conflict of interests is observed, it will be the responsibility of the members to inform the Chairman and withdraw imself/herself from the committee for that particular issue/case.