The Department of Science & Technology and Information & Technology was created in October 2003 under the National Policy on Science and Technology. The Directorate General of Science and Technology (DoST) was established in December 2006 with the joining of the start up team comprising of Director, Deputy Director and Assistant Director with a small start up support staff. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) can rightly take pride as it is the 1st province to have created the department of science & technology.