Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated three PARAM Rudra supercomputers and high-performance computing systems to the country. These systems have been deployed in Delhi, Pune, and Kolkata, respectively.

"These supercomputers will go a long way in ensuring that India's scientists have access to state-of-the-art facilities," according to the prime minister. "The three supercomputers launched today will help in advanced research from physics, earth science, and cosmology."

"10,000 Atal Tinkering Labs have been established in schools to foster scientific values in young brains. Additionally, scholarships for STEM topics have been raised," he stated.

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) was created to equip the country with a strong supercomputing infrastructure to satisfy the increasing computational demands of universities, researchers, MSMEs, and startups. It is the first project of its sort to increase the country's processing capability.

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) jointly manage the National Supercomputing Mission, which is being implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru.

These supercomputers include applications for weather and climate, computational fluid dynamics, bioinformatics, and material science. The systems include artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities via machine learning and deep learning frameworks, as well as compute and storage as a cloud service.

"In this year's budget, a research fund of Rs 1 lakh crore has been announced so that India empowers the 21st century world," Mr. Modi said.

The Prime Minister highlighted India's achievements in the space domain, citing recent victories, adding, "India aims to establish the 'Bharatiya Antariksha Station' by 2035."

In 2023, India achieved new milestones with the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 at the Moon's South Pole and the launch of Aditya-L1, the country's first solar mission. These achievements not only reinforced India's standing in the global space economy, but also aided the development of the country's commercial space sector.

India is now planning for the ambitious Gaganyaan mission, which intends to showcase human spaceflight capabilities by sending a crew of astronauts into orbit and safely returning them to Earth, with a scheduled landing in Indian sea waters.

PM Modi also stated that the semiconductor industry has become an important part of India's economy.

The government has authorized five semiconductor plants in India, with building already begun at two locations. Work on the remaining three locations will begin shortly. The corporations have already invested over Rs 1.5 lakh crore.