Government of India
Atomic Energy Commission

The Indian Atomic Energy Commission was first set up in August 1948 in the then Department of Scientific Research, which was  created a few months earlier in June 1948. The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) was set up on August 3, 1954 under the direct charge of the Prime Minister through a Presidential Order. Subsequently, in accordance with a Government Resolution dated March 1, 1958, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was established in the Department of Atomic Energy. The then Prime Minister ( late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru) also laid a copy of this Resolution on the table of the Lok Sabha on March 24, 1958.

According to the Resolution constituting the AEC, the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Atomic Energy is ex-officio Chairman of the Commission. The other Members of the AEC are appointed for each calendar year on the recommendation of the Chairman, AEC and after approval by the Prime Minster.

  The composition of the Atomic Energy Commission is:

Dr R.K.Sinha
Secretary to Government of India,
Department of Atomic Energy

Chairman

Shri V. Narayanasamy, 
Minister of State, Prime Minister's Office

Member

Shri Shivshankar Menon, 
National Security Advisor

Member

PulokCShri Pulok Chatterji, 
Principal Secretary to Prime Minister

Member

Shri Ajit Kumar Seth, 
Cabinet Secretary 

Member

Shri Ranjan Mathai
 Foreign Secretary 

Member

Shri Sumit Bose, 
Secretary Dept of Expenditure

Member

Shri V.V. Bhat,
Secretary to Government of India

Member
for Finance

Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Honorary  
Honorary President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific  Research, Bengaluru

Member

Dr. M.R. Srinivasan,
Former Member(Energy) Planning Commission & ex-Chairman AEC

Member

Prof. P. Rama Rao,
Former Secretary, Department of Science and Technology

Member

Dr Anil Kakodkar
Former Chairman, AEC and Homi Bhabha Professor

Member

Dr R.B. Grover
 Principal Adviser, Department of Atomic Energy

Member

Shri Arun Srivastava, 
Member, Strategic Planning Group, Scientific Officer-H, DAE

Secretary