🏛️ Description
The Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST) drives India’s science, technology, and innovation agenda. It formulates policies, funds research, builds national laboratories and technology centres, and translates R&D into applications that advance industry, healthcare, environment, agriculture, and public services.
The Ministry works through three core departments—Science & Technology, Biotechnology, and Scientific & Industrial Research—to strengthen basic research, nurture startups and deep-tech, develop human capital, and promote international S&T cooperation.
🎯 Mandate
- Formulate national S&T policy and strategic roadmaps across priority domains.
- Fund basic, applied, and translational research; support missions and centres of excellence.
- Develop research infrastructure, national labs, and shared facilities.
- Promote technology development, IP creation, standards, and indigenisation.
- Scale innovation & startups via grants, incubation, and public–private partnerships.
- Advance biotech for health, agriculture, environment, and industrial applications.
- Foster S&T human capital, STEM education, and scientific temper.
- Lead international S&T collaborations and grand-challenge programmes.
🌐 Official Website
🔗 https://dst.gov.in (gateway to Ministry & departments)
🏢 Offices & Contacts
Headquarters:
Ministry of Science & Technology
Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road,
New Delhi – 110016, India
General Enquiries / Directory: See the Contact/Directory pages on the respective department sites for the latest emails and phone numbers.
Web Gateway: dst.gov.in
🏗️ Departments & Key Organisations
- Department of Science & Technology (DST): Policy, basic & applied research funding, missions — dst.gov.in
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT): Biotech research, vaccines, bioeconomy, bio-manufacturing — dbtindia.gov.in
- Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR): Promotes industrial R&D and technology development — dsir.gov.in
- CSIR – Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (under DSIR): National lab network for multi-disciplinary research — csir.res.in
- Technology Development Board (TDB): Commercialisation funding for indigenous technologies — tdb.gov.in
- ANRF (formerly SERB): Competitive research funding & investigator-centric grants — anrf.gov.in
- Vigyan Prasar: Science communication & outreach — vigyanprasar.gov.in
- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC): Startup/SME grants & biotech incubation — birac.nic.in
- National Innovation Foundation (NIF): Grassroots innovation & scouting — nif.org.in
- Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC): Foresight & tech roadmapping — tifac.org.in
🚀 Flagship & Focus Areas
- National missions in AI, quantum, cyber-physical systems, materials, clean energy & storage.
- Biotech priorities: vaccines, genomics, bio-manufacturing, agri-biotech, bioeconomy scale-up.
- Deep-tech startups, IP & technology transfer, industry-academia collaboration.
- STEM fellowships, women in science programmes, and researcher mobility.
- International S&T partnerships and multilateral grand challenges.