Union Cabinet also approved creation of empowered Technical Group and 22nd Law Commission. The term of the previous law panel had ended on August 31, 2018. With the Cabinet approval, the Law Ministry will now notify the new panel, which will have a term of three years. The panel will have a full-time chairperson, four full-time members (including a member secretary), and law and legislative secretaries in the law ministry as ex-officio members.
Cabinet approved constitution of a 12-Member Technology Group with the Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India as its Chair.
This Group is mandated to render timely policy advice on latest technologies; mapping of technology and technology products; commercialisation of dual use technologies developed in national laboratories and government R&D organisations; developing an indigenisation road map for selected key technologies; and selection of appropriate R&D programmes leading to technology development.