. The Committee questioned most of the entities that made presentations around how their targets were set. Entities such as the CSIR, HSRC and NRF assured the Committee that their objectives and performance indicators had been set in line with the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound) principle. The Committee wanted to ascertain whether these targets, especially in cases where they were all met, could not be attributed to setting targets either too low or due to limitations of the parliamentary grants and human capital to increase those targets. The Committee undertook to explore further the aforementioned submissions of DST's entities.