Lok Sabha Question No. 516 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-03
Subject: Support for NIT Jalandhar’s Indigenous Semiconductor Chip
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Shri Charanjit Singh Channi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 516

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 03.12.2025

## SUPPORT FOR NIT JALANDHAR'S INDIGENOUS SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP

## 516. SHRI CHARANJIT SINGH CHANNI:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  financial  or  technical  support  has  been  approved  for  commercialising  the  indigenous semiconductor chip unveiled by NIT Jalandhar at SEMICON India 2025;
- (b) if so, the details of funding and timelines for the same;
- (c) the estimated employment generation in Jalandhar's electronics ecosystem; and
- (d) whether a local Centre of Excellence for testing and fabrication is proposed and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)

(a) to (d): India has emerged as a major electronics manufacturing hub, with a six-fold increase in production over the past decade and currently employing 25 lakh people. To cater to the growing demand of electronics manufacturing, it is imperative for us to develop the semiconductor and electronics components industry.

In alignment with the Prime Minister's vision of Make in India, Make for the World, the Government is strengthening the semiconductor ecosystem, supported by design talent and indigenous R&D capabilities.

## Technical Support for Testing and Fabrication

The Chips to Start-up (C2S) Programme facilitates comprehensive support to 300 participating institutions, including NIT Jalandhar, such as:

- Centralised access to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, design tape-out at SCL Mohali, and regular training.
- Complete hands-on experience on chip design to Students and researchers at the institutions.
- Access to Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware boards for functional validation.
- Access  to  empanelled  service  providers  for  testing,  fabrication  and  packaging  (details  at https://c2s.gov.in/Post\_Silicon.jsp )
- Institutions also have the flexibility to engage other leading vendors outside the empanelled list based on project requirements.

The C2S Programme aims to generate 85,000 numbers of industry-ready manpower at B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD levels specialized in semiconductor chip design area.

As part of this Programme, institutions are developing working prototypes of semiconductor chips.

NIT Jalandhar is the participating institution under Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme for developing a System  on  Chip  (SoC)  for  next-generation  IoT  systems  in  collaboration  with  NIT  Rourkela,  NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Raipur and IIEST Shibpur.

Project  has  a  fiveyear  duration  with  a  total  outlay  of  ₹4.80  crore,  with  ₹96  lakh  allocated  to  each collaborating institute.

As part of the initiative, NIT Jalandhar has designed a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) chip for a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL), fabricated at SCL Mohali and showcased during SEMICON India 2025.

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