Key Points
The Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) has been working aggressively on multiple areas, particularly, to boost domestic semiconductor industry, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly...
In an interaction with ET's Muntazir Abbas, MeitY secretary, S Krishnan, a 1989 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, who took over barely six months back, is at the helm of many prestigious initiatives, and in an exclusive interaction talks on semiconductor ecosystem, mobile components manufacturing, deepfakes menace, and implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023..
Today, they are supporting the fab industry in Korea, in Japan, with government grants in the US, Europe and everywhere else. So, even if funds under the present India Semiconductor Mission gets exhausted, we have to add and find a way by which more funds are added in order to work further...
We don't have a talent pool yet for semiconductor manufacturing, because manufacturing is also a skilled prospect and people who work in clean rooms know how to manage that..
We have six locations where we have clean rooms set up through various companies, and IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) and IISc (Indian Institute of Science), and through those cleanroom facilities, we are training people..
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