Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnav has said that India would soon become a major Semiconductor Nation in the world and Mohali based SCL would play a major role in it.

The Minister who has inaugurated Semiconductor Process Gallery and PARANGAT Semiconductor Training Lab at the SCL in Mohali, today, said that under the Prime Minister’s vision of India Semiconductor Mission, this Punjab based facility would be upgraded with Rs. 4500 crore investment.

He said it would be modernized with new tools and other requirements to increase its production 100 times more than the present one.

With its upgradation, the SCL would fulfill the strategic, research and students’ requirements for chip fabrication. The Minister asked the Punjab government to provide 25 acre adjoining land to the SCL, Mohali for the upgradation and its long-term growth for the better future of the institution.

Clearing the prevailing doubts of SCL employees of privatization of the institution, Mr Vaishnav said that this facility would remain a government and a major Research and Development organization.

Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnav also handed over 30 chips designed by students from 17 institutions across the country, which were fabricated at SCL Mohali.