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‘Chip taker to chip maker’: PM Modi highlights India’s goal at Digital India Week 2022

July 5, 2022
Bharat Times English News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Said on 4th July India Wants to become “Chip Taker to Chip Maker” during the inaugural ceremony of Digital India Week-2022.

During the first day of the programme, Modi announced the first group of 30 institutions to receive assistance through the “Chips to Startup” (C2S) programme.

c2s program

The C2S program aims to train 85,000 specialized manpower in the field of VLSI and Embedded System Design over a period of five years and leapfrog into the ESDM space. It also acts as a catalyst for the growth of startups engaged in fabless design.

The major objectives associated with this initiative are:

  • To generate industry ready manpower in the system / SoC design area to create a vibrant fabless chip design ecosystem.
  • Industry-led R&D Promote translational research and strengthen industry-academic collaborations, which are essential for promoting start-up growth patterns in India.
  • Culture of developing reusable IP cores and ASICs/SoCs/systems for social/strategic sectors.
  • Broadening the ASIC/IC design base in the country by accommodating more academic institutions, and start-ups for the design of IPS/ASIC/System/SOC.
  • To inculcate a culture of entrepreneurship among students and researchers by preserving the intellectual property generated and incubating the startups.

With the goal of developing cost-effective solutions to social problems, it is anticipated that projects will be taken up under the program in areas such as energy and health care, disaster management, safety and security, emerging technologies as well as an intelligent transportation system .

According to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, “the program will be implemented in around 100 educational institutions/R&D organizations across the country.”

“Besides them, startups and MSMEs can also participate in the program by submitting their proposals for the development of System/SoC/IP Core(s) under the academic-industry collaborative project, Grand Challenge // Hackathon/RFP.”

It is worth mentioning that these are part of the Semiconductor Mission of India, which aims to create a strong semiconductor design ecosystem.

Digital India

Modi said during the event that India is leading the world in the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, and warned that countries that do not accept modern technologies will be left behind.

Additionally, he said that the government is now at the doorsteps and phones of citizens due to the Digital India initiative. According to him, over 1.25 lakh common service centers and rural stores are now bringing e-commerce to rural India, and the technology is also being used for rural properties to offer property documents.

We have transferred thousands of crores of rupees to the bank accounts of crores of women, farmers, laborers of the country at a single click with the help of ‘One Nation’. ‘One Ration Card’, we have ensured free ration to over 80 crore countrymen,” the PM said.

He also highlighted the fact that “we have run the world’s largest and most efficient COVID vaccination and COVID relief programme”.

“About 200 crore vaccine doses and certificates have been given through our coin platform,” Modi said.

start-up ecosystem

According to the PM, the government has opened up new areas like space, mapping, drones, gaming and animation, discussing how the start-up ecosystem has changed in various sectors, using digital technology for innovation. Will expand in the future. Digital India project launched.

He also highlighted the fact that in the ensuing years of this decade, IN-SPACe (a single-window autonomous agency under the Department of Space was launched to ensure greater private participation in India’s space activities) and There will be provisions like a new drone policy. Reviving India’s technological potential.

Furthermore, Modi praised India’s fintech effort, saying it is truly a solution “by the people, for the people, for the people”, while “our digital solutions have scale, security and democratic values”.

Minister in Digital India Week

However, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar met UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week with a team of Indian startups, unicorns and innovators.

Talking about this meeting during the second day of Digital India Week, he said that “seven UK ministers had come to meet those 50 start-ups”.

“Everyone in that government wanted to meet them, understand the successes of these startups,” the minister said, adding that “they acknowledged they wanted to recreate those successes in the UK”.

“During the conversation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak said that India and the UK are now face-to-face in innovation and start-ups, but I had to politely tell him that maybe he had that in the memo but India is way ahead of 50 start-ups. of the UK and Europe in terms of the innovation ecosystem represented by Up,” MoS Chandrasekhar said on 5 July.

He also added: “Digital India will support growth not only through various programs including IT Ministry and Genesis, but also with the government’s own technology requirement and start-ups to become a bridge between startup and innovation ecosystem Will join.”

Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information on the second day of Digital India week technology Ashwini Vaishnav was also present.

He also talked about the Start up India program, citing the vision of PM Modi. The minister said that despite initial skepticism from the opposition and others about the initiative, change has taken place and India currently has over 100 unicorns, as well as over 70,000 start-ups.

According to Vaishnav, to support and boost the start-up ecosystem, the government has consolidated all the different initiatives into a single program called ‘Genesis’.

Addressing all the industry experts who attended the event on 5th July, he said, “We want Genesis to be your gateway to various support systems including mentors, funds, pitching partners and your gateway to various government programmes. included.”

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