Evaluating multiple EoIs for OSATs, fabs, modernizing SCL: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

A top government body is examining “a significant number" of applications to set up semiconductor fabrication units and testing facilities in India, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union minister of state for electronics and information technology. Edited excerpts: State governments say the India Semiconductor Mission isn’t giving approvals to chip projects in their states. Will local electronics manufacturing in India need concerted efforts to create a component supply chain now, given that we’re assembling a sizeable amount? Given that a billion Indians are going to use the internet by 2026, and as we harness tech for good so there’ll always be harms, cybercrimes are one aspect of the harm that we’ve to figure out a way for allowing state governments to be able to collaborate and respond faster.