00:00Hello viewers, we are joined by Rajat Mona, director of IIT Gandhinagar sir. I want to ask
00:08like how IIT Gandhinagar is contributing to semiconductor mission through research and
00:13talent development? At IIT Gandhinagar we have a department called department of we basically
00:22call it semiconductors and VLSI design technology and manufacturing technology. So in this we offer
00:32BTEC, MTEC and PhD program. In addition with government of Gujarat and ministry of IIT we are
00:39launching a scheme called SAMRT which creates a workforce ready for fab operations. Okay this is
00:48about a hub and spoke model where we are collaborating with government of Gujarat and various colleges
00:54in government in Gujarat supported by government would be imparting training and some selected
01:01candidates out of that would be brought into IIT Gandhinagar and provided advanced training on tools,
01:07materials, technology and research. We are working with ministry of IIT and providing the research
01:15component into semiconductors. So this is the project that we are envisaging, we are working.
01:22Our program on ICDT that is IC design and manufacturing technology is now running into second
01:30year and there is a lot of excitement of students to take admission into that. Our semiconductor industry
01:38is like booming very fast as we have our minister has you know presented our first chip to PM also.
01:45But through this industry and academia collaboration how we are overcoming this global talent shortage
01:53how we are overcoming this gap? Minister already talked about this at present it is considered it is
02:01it is seen that there will be a global shortage of almost a million semiconductor professionals by 2030 and in the change scenario in the world I think
02:16who can provide that trained manpower in semiconductor in those many numbers it can only be India and with
02:25Indian talent and Indian expertise we believe that we can actually handle the
02:32shortest of semiconductor trained manpower through Indian innovation. Now in addition to this India itself
02:40will require about 300 000 manpower in next four or five years and 300 000 trained manpower is not a very small number
02:49but almost all academic institutions have to work together. We are making a small beginning
02:56where we are assuming that we will be able to handle something close to about three to four thousand engineers a year
03:04and that in my opinion will be to some extent circumventing that other IITs various other institutions
03:11are also working towards that we hopefully will circumvent this problem this demand
03:16and you know as and we will rise to the nation's demand whenever it's needed. Under this initiative Samarth
03:23are we planning a different program of for the semiconductor thing and is there any industry internship in
03:30we have collaborated with the industries also to train students and all? Samarth is actually a program
03:35which is to create the silicon you know research and manufacturing semiconductor manufacturing and research teaching hub. Now under this program we are actually going to bring a lot of students
03:53through a hub and spoke model where students will go through basic harmonized and standardized training program
04:02through various colleges and then they will be selected you know those who are more interested in going into the research
04:10they will be selected and brought into a semiconductor research and semiconductor training advanced level training at IIT Gandhinagar.
04:18It is actually a program that scheme that we are invisas to help circumvent this issue of manpower shortage in the country.
04:27So my last question would be if we talk about the job and employment thing this will also generate a lot of jobs
04:34what is your take on that like how much like if we talk about the scale and numbers of jobs from this end what sort of job it will create?
04:42I think it is actually another moment of the country where if you remember in mid 90s there was a demand of software engineers
04:55and India I think stood to that challenge. It became the IT workforce manpower and super power for the world.
05:04This is about the same moment that we are seeing now for semiconductors. I think there is a going to be ample job opportunities
05:13with AI with quantum technologies actually put back into this. I think hardware and silicon is actually going to be the future of the technology.
05:24So to that extent I think today even Prime Minister also talked about it. There is a huge amount of excitement
05:33and huge amount of planning that is being done by the government to make sure that country lives up to the next level of expectation.
05:41Are we in talks with Ministry of Education also if we are you know starting these courses and any message to the students you want to give?
05:49I think we are in talk with Ministry of Education. We are in talk with Ministry of IT and Electronics and IT
05:57and we are also in talk with Government of Gujarat. I think everybody is aligned on this. Everybody knows
06:04that this is the need of the time and people are actually moving towards that.
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