Programme Management Council

NICES is a multi-institutional venture with the participation of ISRO/DOS centres and other departments and national Institutions under various Ministries, which help to strengthen the information base with contributions (in-situ observational and model outputs) from the participating organisations. NICES has been functioning under the guidance of NICES-Programme Management Council (PMC) with a composition of members from inter and intra-departmental institutions under the Chairmanship of Director, NRSC. It's programmatic activities are periodically reviewed by the experts from ISRO/DOS centres.
S. No. Official Role
1. Director, National Remote Sensing Centre Chairman
2. Representative of Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Member
3. Representative of Director General, India Meteorological Department Member
4. Representative of Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Member
5. Representative of Director, Physical Research Laboratory Member
6. Adviser (Climate Change), Ministry of Environment & Forests Member
7. Director, Earth Science & Climate Change (ESCC) division, The Energy and Resources Institute Member
8. Chairman, Divecha Centre, Indian Institute of Sciences Member
9. Dy. Director General, Natural Resources Management, Indian Council of Agricultural Research Member
10. Director, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Member
11. Director, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory Member
12. Dy. Director, Earth, Ocean, Atmosphere, Planetary Sciences and Applications Area, SAC Member
13. Programme Director, IRS, ISRO Satellite Centre Member
14. Director, Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC Member
15. Director, Earth Observations Systems, ISRO-HQ Member
16. Programme Director, NICES, NRSC Secretary
Co-opted members:
17. Smt. Meenakshi Joshi, Joint Director (FGD), Forest Survey of India, MoEF & CC Co-opted member
18. Dr. V.K. Dadhwal, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru Co-opted member
19. Dr. P. Rama Rao, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), MoES, Hyderabad Co-opted member
20. Director, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), MoES Co-opted member
21. Director, North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), Shillong Co-opted member
22. Dr. Subhimal Ghosh, Convener, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay Co-opted member
As on 30th Apr 2023