Mandate of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) is to manage majorly all projects of CSIR-CCMB. Also to liaise between Director and research groups CSIR-HQ and other organizations. Primarily PME takes care to provide inputs of various projects like in-house, sponsored, collaborative, grant-in-aid and NMITLI projects. In addition, PME provides information to project audit agencies, parliamentary and RTI queries.

PME assists Director in preparation and collating institutional data for onward transmission to CSIR headquarters, survey agencies. PME also conducts various institutional programs and any other responsibility as advised by the Director from time to time.