In future, world will hear Digital India Inside
Govt reviewing design-linked incentive scheme to push semiconductor space: MoS for IT
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Bengaluru: Giving the analogy of chip major Intel's famous slogan "Intel Inside", Minister of State (MoS) for Communications and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday said all efforts of the government in the semiconductor domain should make the world hear 'Digital India Inside'. The minister also said industry players like Dell, Sony as well as ISRO and the Atomic Energy Department are all endorsing and working with the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) programme. The government has set a deadline to commercially launch the first indigenous chipset by 2023-24 under the DIR-V. "In the past, world heard Intel Inside. In the future, the world should hear Digital India Inside," Chandrasekhar said.
The minister further said that the central government will review norms of the design linked incentive (DLI) program which envisages to support 100 companies involved in product design in the semiconductor space as part of a Rs76,000 crore scheme for developing the electronic chip ecosystem in the country. He also said the scheme will continue to be in place to support all product design projects and start-ups, among others.
"Whether the DLI norms need to be modified, we have got some feedback from this conference that maybe the DLI has been designed to be very narrow. Maybe there is a cap on funding that is too restrictive. We will examine all that," Chandrasekhar told reporters.
