<p>The government is planning to come up with a scheme to incentivise investments in hyperscale data centres in the country and increase the current capacity by over 10-fold in a short period, a senior IT ministry official said on Thursday.</p>.<p>Electronics and IT Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said there has been a good response to production-linked incentive schemes for which application windows are open and the scheme around hyperscale data centres will be beneficial for those who manufacture high end servers.</p>.<p>"Within the MeitY, we have prepared a policy on hyperscale data centres and also a scheme for incentivising investments in hyperscale data centres. The current scale of hyperscale data centres here in India is counted in terms of power consumed.</p>.<p>"It comes to 200 megawatts. Our effort will be to come out with a policy and scheme that aims 10-fold growth in this in a short time span," Sawhney said at a virtual summit organised by IT hardware makers MAIT.</p>.<p>He said the government has set up a mission for designing microprocessors and has also floated expressions of interest for setting up electronic chip plants.</p>.<p>"MeitY has come to the market with a request for a semiconductor fab. This has already elicited some response and we will be closing this by April 30.</p>.<p>"Based on the helpful response, we will be formulating a scheme and come out with proposals for setting up semiconductor fab in India," Sawhney said.</p>.<p>The government has also reached out to companies for setting up display plants in the country and exploring the interests of various players in the segment, Sawhney said.</p>.<p>"Both for foundry and display fab, there is a huge demand as we move forward over the next 4-5 years. Foundries account for only 20 per cent chips that get used in electronic manufacturing.</p>.<p>"Even at this 20 per cent, there is a room for at least three fab foundries with capacity of something 30,000-40,000 units of 12 inch wafer per month. Similarly, there is burgeoning demand for displays," he said.</p>.<p>The IT secretary urged industry players to focus on new products that are yet to be created with 5G and internet of things products knocking on the door.</p>.<p>He said that every sector of the economy will need electronics.</p>.<p>"Do not focus entirely on existing products, it is a new product segment that is going to be overwhelmingly large" Sawhney said. </p>
<p>The government is planning to come up with a scheme to incentivise investments in hyperscale data centres in the country and increase the current capacity by over 10-fold in a short period, a senior IT ministry official said on Thursday.</p>.<p>Electronics and IT Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said there has been a good response to production-linked incentive schemes for which application windows are open and the scheme around hyperscale data centres will be beneficial for those who manufacture high end servers.</p>.<p>"Within the MeitY, we have prepared a policy on hyperscale data centres and also a scheme for incentivising investments in hyperscale data centres. The current scale of hyperscale data centres here in India is counted in terms of power consumed.</p>.<p>"It comes to 200 megawatts. Our effort will be to come out with a policy and scheme that aims 10-fold growth in this in a short time span," Sawhney said at a virtual summit organised by IT hardware makers MAIT.</p>.<p>He said the government has set up a mission for designing microprocessors and has also floated expressions of interest for setting up electronic chip plants.</p>.<p>"MeitY has come to the market with a request for a semiconductor fab. This has already elicited some response and we will be closing this by April 30.</p>.<p>"Based on the helpful response, we will be formulating a scheme and come out with proposals for setting up semiconductor fab in India," Sawhney said.</p>.<p>The government has also reached out to companies for setting up display plants in the country and exploring the interests of various players in the segment, Sawhney said.</p>.<p>"Both for foundry and display fab, there is a huge demand as we move forward over the next 4-5 years. Foundries account for only 20 per cent chips that get used in electronic manufacturing.</p>.<p>"Even at this 20 per cent, there is a room for at least three fab foundries with capacity of something 30,000-40,000 units of 12 inch wafer per month. Similarly, there is burgeoning demand for displays," he said.</p>.<p>The IT secretary urged industry players to focus on new products that are yet to be created with 5G and internet of things products knocking on the door.</p>.<p>He said that every sector of the economy will need electronics.</p>.<p>"Do not focus entirely on existing products, it is a new product segment that is going to be overwhelmingly large" Sawhney said. </p>