Daily PIB Highlights (14th NOVEMBER)

Topic 1: USD 25 Billion Telecom Components Opportunity – Union Minister Dr. Chandra Shekhar Urges Industry to Invest in India

GS Paper 3: Economy – Manufacturing, Investment, Telecom Sector / GS Paper 2: Governance – Reforms, Industry Facilitation

Context:

At the CII Partnership Summit in Visakhapatnam, Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Shekhar, Union Minister of State for Communications & Rural Development, highlighted India’s USD 25 billion telecom component manufacturing opportunity and called upon global investors to partner in India’s next decade of economic transformation.

1. India’s Mindset Metamorphosis – From License Raj to Trust-First Governance

• • Chandra Shekhar described India’s transformation as a “Mindset Metamorphosis”, shifting from suspicion-driven policies to a trust-first, entrepreneur-centric ecosystem.
  • India’s rise in the last decade attributed to:
    • Deliberate policy reforms
    • Determined execution
    • Empowered entrepreneurship

2. USD 25 Billion Opportunity in Telecom Component Manufacturing

• • Union Minister announced a USD 25 billion investment opportunity in telecom components & electronics manufacturing.
  • Ministry of Communications assured:
    • Fast-track approvals
    • Facilitative regulatory support
    • Plug-and-play system for investors
  • Emphasized India’s goal to become a trusted global supplier for Open RAN, 5G/6G components, semiconductors, and telecom hardware.

3. India as a Global Investment Magnet

• • Investing in India means engaging with:
    • World’s largest rising middle class
    • Fastest-growing major economy
    • Strong policy continuity and stability
    • India’s economic ascent will shape global business for the next several decades.
    • India is positioned as a reliable partner in global supply chains.

4. Major Reforms Driving India’s Investment Climate

Union Minister listed key reforms that transformed India’s manufacturing and investment ecosystem:

• • USD 1.4 trillion infrastructure investment pipeline
  • USD 26 billion PLI Scheme, boosting high-value manufacturing
  • Simplified labour laws – consolidation into 4 labour codes
  • Abolition of retrospective taxation
  • GST – creation of a unified national market
  • Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) strengthening credit discipline

These reforms have elevated India’s profile as a trusted global partner and manufacturing hub.

5. Andhra Pradesh Presented as a High-Growth Investment Hub

Dr. Chandra Shekhar showcased Andhra Pradesh as India’s next big investment frontier, highlighting:

Industrial & Sectoral Strengths

• • Cyberabad (IT hub)
    • Visakhapatnam (Industry + Fintech)
    • Anantapur (Automobile manufacturing)
    • Tirupati (Electronics & semiconductors)
    • Genome Valley – Biotechnology & life sciences cluster

State Advantages

• • Six major ports enabling global connectivity
  • Large industrial land banks
  • Strong renewable energy potential (solar + wind)
  • Governance built on speed, facilitation, and investor confidence

Political & Administrative Momentum

• • Credited Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for building strong industrial ecosystems.
    • Highlighted young leadership including Shri Nara Lokesh and Shri TG Bharath, driving investment-focused governance.
    • Described AP as “not just investment-ready, but investment-hungry.”

Strategic Significance

• • Positions India as a global telecom manufacturing hub for the next decade.
    • Aligns with national goals of Atmanirbhar Bharat, secure telecom ecosystems, and reduced import dependence.
    • Strengthens India’s role in global electronics and telecom supply chains.
    • Boosts job creation, domestic value addition, and high-tech manufacturing clusters.
    • Enhances India’s economic diplomacy and partnership-building with global investors.
    • Promotes Andhra Pradesh as a strategic gateway for industry, logistics, IT, and electronics.

Topic 2: Culmination of Tri-Services Exercise 2025 (TSE-2025) ‘Trishul’

GS Paper 3: Internal Security | Defence Preparedness | Jointness and Theatre Commands

Context:

The Indian Navy, as the lead service, conducted the Tri-Services Exercise 2025 (TSE-2025) ‘Trishul’ jointly with the Indian Army and Indian Air Force in early November 2025. The exercise marks a major step towards jointness, interoperability, and multi-domain integrated operations among the three Services.

1. Leadership & Participating Formations

• • Exercise led by:
    • Western Naval Command (Lead)
    • Southern Command of the Indian Army
    • South Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force
  • Other participating agencies:
    • Indian Coast Guard
    • Border Security Force (BSF)
    • Central agencies supporting joint operations

The wide participation reinforced inter-agency coordination and whole-of-government response capability.

2. Operational Scope Across Multiple Domains

The exercise was conducted across creek, desert, and maritime theatres:

Rajasthan & Gujarat Sector

• • High-intensity operations across creek and desert terrain
  • Integrated Army–Air Force–Navy coordination for border defence
• Maritime Domain – North Arabian Sea
  • Amphibious operations
  • Joint naval–air operations with carrier battle group
  • Involvement of surface, air, amphibious, and special forces platforms ensured a fully integrated operational envelope.

3. Focus on Jointness, Synergy & Interoperability

The central aim was to validate multi-domain integrated operational procedures:

• • Enhanced interoperability across platforms and infrastructure
    • Strengthened network integration among the three Services
    • Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) validation
    • Testing Electronic Warfare (EW) and Cyber Warfare plans

Seamless air operations between:

– Indian Navy carrier assets
– Indian Air Force shore-based platforms

The exercise refined standard operating procedures (SOPs) and promoted exchange of Best Practices.

4. Use of Indigenous Systems & Aatmanirbhar Bharat

• • Exercise showcased the extensive employment of indigenous platforms, sensors, communication systems, and weapons.
  • Demonstrated the military’s capability to integrate Aatmanirbhar Bharat technologies into joint war-fighting frameworks.
  • Focused on adapting doctrinal practices to emerging threats and the future character of warfare.

Strategic Significance

• • Strengthens India’s preparedness for multi-domain operations across land, air, sea, cyber, and electronic segments.
  • Enhances joint operational readiness, critical for upcoming theatre command reforms.
  • Reinforces India’s capability for rapid, coordinated military response in volatile border and maritime regions.
  • Demonstrates integrated deterrence against evolving threats in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
  • Ensures seamless coordination among armed forces and civil agencies, improving national security resilience.

Conclusion

The successful completion of Tri-Services Exercise 2025 ‘Trishul’ marks a decisive step toward strengthening India’s national security preparedness and adapting to the demands of future warfare.

Topic 3: India Emphasises Data-Driven, People-Centred Justice Reforms at OECD Global Roundtable (Madrid)

GS Paper 2: Governance – Judiciary, Legal Reforms, e-Governance / GS Paper 2: International Relations – Global Cooperation on Justice Systems

Context:

Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law & Justice, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, participated in the 10th OECD Global Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice in Madrid. He presented India’s model of data-driven, digital, and people-centric justice delivery, anchored in constitutional values and technology-enabled reforms.

1. India’s Constitutional Vision of People-Centred Justice

• • Shri Meghwal reaffirmed India’s commitment to inclusive and accessible justice, grounded in Article 39A (equal justice & free legal aid).
  • Quoted Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s view of justice: “Justice is simply another name for liberty, equality, and fraternity.”
  • Highlighted that justice reforms are guided by empathy, accessibility, and responsiveness.
  • Emphasised that in a diverse democracy, courts cannot reform alone — data, DPI, and human-centred governance must advance together.

2. India’s Digital Judiciary Transformation – e-Courts (Phase III: 2023–2027)

India’s e-Courts Mission Mode Project is among the world’s largest judicial digitalization programmes:

• • Building intelligent, paperless, integrated courts using AI, ML, NLP
  • 560 crore+ pages of judicial records being digitized
  • 86 crore virtual hearings held already
  • Cloud-hosted courts ensure reliability, accessibility and continuity

COVID-19 Response:

• Nearly 4.3 crore (43 million) virtual hearings conducted during the pandemic — demonstrating India’s commitment to inclusivity even in crisis.

Transparency:

• • Live-streaming of proceedings in Supreme Court and multiple High Courts.
  • AI-powered transcription and translation enabling wider public access.

3. Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) – Data-Driven Justice

• • Courts integrated digitally with police, prisons, prosecution, and forensic labs.
  • Enables evidence-backed, quicker decision-making.
  • Reduces delays, improves investigation quality, and enhances transparency.

Complementary innovations:

• • LIMBS (Legal Information Management & Briefing System) to streamline govt litigation
  • Digital case management & AI-assisted filing systems
  • Improved access for undertrials through virtual hearings across prisons

4. Last-Mile Access to Justice – DISHA, Tele-Law & Community Outreach

DISHA – Designing Innovative Solutions for Holistic Access to Justice

• • Integrates digital innovation with community-based justice outreach.

Tele-Law:

• • Over 1 crore citizens provided free legal advice
  • Support available in 22 Indian languages
  • Addresses barriers of geography, language, and awareness

Nyaya Setu, Vidhi Baithaks, and legal awareness camps have collectively enabled millions to access legal support.

5. Ethical, Human-Supervised Adoption of AI in Justice System

Shri Meghwal stressed India’s commitment to ethical, supervised, privacy-conscious AI:

• • SUVAS – AI-based judicial translation in Indian languages
    • SUPACE – AI-enabled research assistance for judges
    • AI-assisted filing, categorisation, and case management
    • Human oversight ensures fairness, judicial discretion, and transparency

India’s approach ensures AI is used to augment, not replace, judicial functions.

6. India’s Global Engagement in Justice Reforms

India hosted the 1st Regional Conference on Access to Legal Aid (2023) — attended by 191 delegates from 51 countries.

India expressed readiness to work with OECD partners on:
– Ethical AI governance frameworks
– Data interoperability
– Digital justice inclusion
– Global legal aid cooperation

India’s delegation included Law Secretary Dr. Anju Rathi Rana.

Strategic Significance

• • Positions India as a global leader in digital justice transformation.
  • Promotes data-driven, citizen-focused reforms as a model for Global South.
  • Strengthens India’s role in shaping global norms on ethical AI, digital justice, and access to legal services.
  • Supports India’s constitutional mandate of justice for all, especially vulnerable populations.
  • Advances international cooperation under Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – “One World, One Family”.

Conclusion

India’s participation at the OECD Roundtable underscores its commitment to people-centric, data-backed and innovation-driven justice delivery. By combining constitutional values with technological progress, India aims to ensure that justice becomes faster, transparent, accessible, and inclusive, both nationally and as a shared global responsibility.

Topic 4: India Unveils First Indigenous High-Precision Diode Laser for Quantum Communication & Computing

GS Paper 3: Science & Technology – Quantum Technologies, Innovation / GS Paper 2: Governance – R&D Ecosystem, Start-up Support

Context:

A startup supported by the National Quantum Mission (NQM)—Prenishq Pvt Ltd, an IIT Delhi spin-off—has developed India’s first indigenous high-precision diode laser, marking a major milestone in India’s advancement in quantum communication and quantum computing technologies.

1. India’s First Indigenous Quantum-Grade Diode Laser

• • Developed by Prenishq Pvt Ltd, supported by NQM, DST-NIDHI Prayas, NM-ICPS and multiple innovation hubs.
    • Launched at ESTIC 2025 by Dr. Jitendra Singh.
    • Represents India’s move toward self-reliance in quantum instrumentation—a field previously dependent on imported tools.
    • Designed for quantum communication, quantum computing, spectroscopy, and advanced photonics research.

2. Key Features and Advantages

• • High beam stability and long-duration reliability
    • Operates across a broad wavelength range (UV to near-infrared)
    • Compact, low-power, low-maintenance design
    • Integrated electronics ensure stable output and temperature control
    • Offered in free-space and fiber-coupled configurations
    • Plug-and-play setup for seamless integration into labs and research systems

3. Enabling Quantum-Safe Communications

• • Acts as a core component for quantum-encrypted communication systems.
    • Applications include:
    • Banking and financial services
    • Secure national communications
    • Protection of sensitive data and transactions
  • Supports the future shift to quantum-safe digital infrastructure.

4. Boost to Photonic Quantum Computing

• • High-precision lasers enable photon-based quantum processors.
  • Strengthens India’s prospects in post-classical computing and advanced deep-tech research.
  • Will accelerate computational capabilities for:
    – Drug discovery
    – Molecular modelling
    – High-complexity chemical analysis

5. Applications Across Research & Higher Education

• • Ideal for quantum optics, atomic physics, spectroscopy, precision measurements.
    • Beneficial for IITs, IISERs, national labs, and evolving private R&D ecosystems.
    • Enhances India’s capacity for cutting-edge quantum experiments.

6. Indigenous Advantage & Cost Efficiency

• • Reduces dependence on high-cost imported lasers.
    • Provides affordable, reliable and readily available quantum-grade tools.
    • Ensures easy installation, minimal maintenance, and improved accessibility for Indian institutions.

7. National Innovation Ecosystem Behind the Breakthrough

Supported by:

• National Quantum Mission (NQM)
• DST–NIDHI Prayas
• NM-ICPS
• I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune
• FITT, IIT Delhi
• BITS BioCyTiH Foundation
• TBI–KIET

Conclusion

It strengthens India’s capabilities in quantum communication, encryption, and computing, contributing to long-term scientific growth and technological sovereignty.

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