Bhubaneswar, July 25 (KNN) The Indian Institute of Technology in Bhubaneswar has received the approval to run a project under the Chips to Startups program of the government to train engineers for various roles in the semiconductor industry.

Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneshwar on Sunday, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister for electronics and information technology said that IIT Bhubaneswar had joined the government’s Chips to Startups program to help us achieve our mission of training 85,000 high-quality engineers in semiconductor industry.

Apart from training engineers belonging from semiconductor industry, the Chips to Startups program also aims to train 250,000 shop-floor technicians and junior engineers.

For the training of shop-floor technicians, Electronics Ministry has partnered with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute and The Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.

The primary objective of this initiative is to create a large pools of talented engineers and shop-floor technicians to help them get employment in global companies.

In April this year, the All-India Council for Technical Education had allowed institutions to offer two new diploma and undergraduate-level courses, which included a diploma in the integrated chip manufacturing process and a bachelor's degree in VLSI design and technology.

“With reference to the Program for Development of Semiconductors and Display manufacturing ecosystem in India, as approved by the Cabinet, it is pertinent that the aspirations of India to set up semiconductors and display manufacturing ecosystem would require market-ready the talent pool in the field of semiconductors and display, which ultimately would require a clear roadmap of capacity building,” the official circular from AICTE had said. (KNN Bureau)