India

Overview

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology & Earth Sciences

Senior Representative

Dr. Anita Gupta
Associate Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Science and Technology
Government of India

Role in Mission Innovation


News and events


MI Champions

MI Champions is a program for recognizing and supporting the next wave of energy technology leaders.
Meet India’s Champions!

Santi Pada Gon Chaudhuri (2019)

Purnima Jalihal (2020)

 


Participation in MI’s first phase

Resources:

Clean Energy Innovation investment (MI 1.0)

Country-determined baseline year(s): 2014-2015
Baseline funding amount: INR 470 crore (USD $72 million)
Doubling target year: 2019-2020
Doubling target amount: INR 967 crore (USD $145 million)

Find out more about how India’s baseline and doubling are calculated

*Figures in the spending chart are based on USD exchange rates in 2020

These are only direct research costs incurred in the implementation of project and do not include man-hour costs of regular scientists employed (which are also funded by public funds) in the institutions. Overheads for implementation of projects are only partially supported (15%).

The Ministry of Science and technology (DBT & DST) is jointly working with International Energy Agency in preparing a template for Data Collection to track the Public and Private Sector Clean Energy RD&D Spending.