{"id":243140,"date":"2023-05-19T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243140"},"modified":"2023-05-19T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:57:54","slug":"more-innovation-a-skilled-workforce-the-promise-in-indias-national-quantum-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/more-innovation-a-skilled-workforce-the-promise-in-indias-national-quantum-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"More innovation, a skilled workforce: The promise in India\u2019s National Quantum Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cMore innovation, a skilled workforce: The promise in India\u2019s National Quantum Mission\u201d <\/strong>published in the Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a019th\u00a0May 2023.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3: Indigenization of technology and developing new technology.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About India\u2019s National Quantum Mission.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Union Cabinet has recently approved the \u20b96,003 crore National Quantum Mission (NQM).<\/p>\n

What is Quantum computing technology?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Quantum computing technology and associated applications \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is India\u2019s National Quantum Mission(NQM)?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Cabinet approves National Quantum Mission to scale-up scientific & industrial R&D for quantum technologies<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is the significance of India’s National Quantum Mission?<\/h2>\n

Investments in quantum materials and devices promise far more dividends. Such as,<\/p>\n

Generate a cadre of the highly skilled workforce<\/strong>: As India gears to become the world\u2019s third-largest economy by 2027, a strongly networked material infrastructure in the country will be crucial. This will cater to not just quantum technologies but also other major scientific megaprojects.<\/p>\n

The concept of \u201cquantum devices\u201d<\/strong>: New paradigms of ultrafast transistors and optoelectronic components, as well as non-volatile memory and sensing devices, are becoming enabling vehicles for quantum applications.<\/p>\n

Research on new architectures to incorporate quantum materials into functional units has led to the concept of quantum devices.<\/p>\n

Develop new or upgrading current methods<\/strong>: Increasing investments in innovation, quantum materials, and manpower generation will lead to precise synthesis, scalable yield, and stable performance of quantum technologies.<\/p>\n

Streamline the material and device requirements for the core quantum technology<\/strong>: By a)<\/strong> building infrastructure for new materials and devices with in-house R&D, b)<\/strong> synergising the diverse and geographically distributed material workforce in India to achieve mission deliverables, and c)<\/strong> ensuring efficient resource utilisation as well as minimising redundancy and duplication will streamline the material and device requirements.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges faced by the NQM?<\/h2>\n

Fewer firms in tech manufacturing<\/strong>: Currently nearly 12% of start-ups are deep tech-related \u2014 this represents a nearly 35 times increase between 2016 and 2019. However, less than 3% of these involve manufacturing and\/or materials.<\/p>\n

India does not have enough infrastructure<\/strong>: India does not have enough infrastructure that can support the entire chain of operation from working out the proof-of-principle to developing working prototypes.<\/p>\n

Fewer and more scattered R&D community<\/strong>: In 2018, India had 253 full-time equivalent researchers per million of its population. This is about 11% of the researcher density of Italy. Further, this workforce is also distributed across the country.<\/p>\n

Material\/device challenge<\/strong>: The material\/device challenge in quantum technologies is unique because it often demands manipulation of the quantum state of an electron or atom<\/strong> with much more control, like three-dimensional systems, that contain billions of atoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0Quantum Computing: Uses, Challenges and India\u2019s Initiatives \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What should be done to enhance India\u2019s National Quantum Mission?<\/h2>\n

The research will be required to develop low-loss materials for superconducting quantum electronics<\/strong> this will preserve quantum information over a long period and much more.<\/p>\n

Leverage the evolving scientific infrastructure<\/strong>: Capacity building in the past two decades under national initiatives, such as the Nano Mission and National Supercomputing Mission<\/a><\/strong>, has enabled a five-fold increase in research publications in this area between 2011 and 2019.<\/p>\n

Strategic recruitment<\/strong>: India needs to devolve strategies to integrate the initiatives of the demographically scattered human resources. Further, the NQM’s goal-oriented multi-institutional consortia will demand strategic recruitment of new talent, synergistic multi-institutional collaboration and political will to ease bureaucratic norms and prevent delays in infrastructure building.<\/p>\n

India needs to create a well-balanced R&D ecosystem<\/strong> where material research for near-term goals and applications needs to coexist and collaborate with more fundamental and futuristic objectives.<\/p>\n

Through timely investment and efficient management, India can emerge a global leader in the Quantum technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cMore innovation, a skilled workforce: The promise in India\u2019s National Quantum Mission\u201d published in the Indian Express on\u00a019th\u00a0May 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3: Indigenization of technology and developing new technology. Relevance: About India\u2019s National Quantum Mission. News: The Union Cabinet has recently approved the \u20b96,003 crore National Quantum Mission… Continue reading More innovation, a skilled workforce: The promise in India\u2019s National Quantum Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-243140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}