IIT Bhubaneswar- The 31st Institution to Prepare Semiconductor

In order to promote startups in India, Minister of Railways, Communication & Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw has given the approval letter of the Government of India to IIT Bhubaneswar for inclusion in Startup program for Chips which will be the 31st Institution in the country for preparing semiconductors.

While challenging the students, Minister mentioned that if the students will provide at least 10 techniques for 5G, then IIT Bhubaneswar will get the Center of Excellence to have 5G usages.

Encouraging the students for the Startup program, Vaishnaw informed that now India has 74 thousand Startups which were a mere 4 hundred in 2014-15.