Overview
- State leaders reviewed and approved draft versions of a Maharashtra Quantum Policy and a Maharashtra Deep Tech Policy at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday.
- The drafts will be placed before the state Cabinet for final clearance and the government has not yet published detailed policy texts, incentives, governance rules, or implementation timelines.
- Officials say the policies aim to boost research, speed commercialisation, support startups and create high‑skilled jobs in areas such as quantum computing, AI and advanced manufacturing.
- The policy push is explicitly linked to a recent MoU with AM Intelligence Labs for a proposed Rs 1.14 lakh crore green data‑centre and AI compute park in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, a 500 MW project planned in two phases that the state says could create about 8,000 jobs; the MoU is not a final investment contract.
- The effort builds on Maharashtra’s IT Policy 2023 and its 2024 green data‑centre policy and will be watched for concrete incentives, funding commitments and workforce plans that determine whether startups, research centres and large compute projects actually follow.