♦ The government has deployed 37 supercomputers across the country under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), with a combined computing capacity of 40 petaflops. The information presented in the Lok Sabha on 10 December 2025 by Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada.

♦ The NSM, launched in 2015 with an outlay of Rs.4,500 crore, aims to achieve self-reliance in high-performance computing by creating advanced research infrastructure and enabling domestic development of critical supercomputing components. 

♦ The mission is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) through C-DAC, Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

♦ Of the 37 systems installed so far, 34 were deployed over the past five years. Another six supercomputers, with a combined outlay of Rs.680 crore, are currently being set up in institutions such as IISc, IITs, C-DAC centres, R&D labs, and universities in Tier-II and Tier-III cities.

♦ The supercomputers are operating at high utilisation levels – most above 81% and some above 95%. They have supported more than 13,000 researchers, including over 1,700 PhD scholars from 260 institutions.