Overview
- Two major centers will be established at IIT Bombay and IISc Bengaluru, with smaller facilities at IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur under the National Quantum Mission.
- The infrastructure will support quantum sensing, quantum computing and quantum materials, including superconducting, photonic and spin qubit fabrication distributed by specialization across the sites.
- Facilities will be open to NQM investigators, academia, industry, start-ups, MSMEs and strategic sectors to enable prototyping and small-scale production.
- DST will fund 100 engineering colleges with Rs 1 crore each for undergraduate teaching labs, with over 500 proposals received and about 100 institutions to be selected, and a quantum algorithms technical group is planned.
- IIT Bombay has opened a liquid helium laboratory with a recovery system expected to reduce cryogenic experiment costs to roughly one-tenth, with access offered to external users.