Today, almost every big brand of mobile in the world is made in India. India is the world's second-biggest mobile manufacturer of the world...Now, India doesn't follow, it creates new systems and leads. India has given the world a concept of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)."

Today, India's 5G market is bigger than America. It has happened within two years. Now, India is working on made-in-India 6G.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the Indian diaspora at Nassau Coliseum in New York, praised India's technological advancements, particularly in 5G, and expressed hope for a made-in-India chip to be used in America soon.

The APSSC also shared detailed data for the application and selection of SC, ST and OBC candidates for faculty positions at IIT Bombay for 2023 and 2024. In 2023, 523 SC candidates applied but only four were selected. No ST candidates were chosen despite 96 applications, and none of the 779 OBC candidates were hired. In 2024, there was a slight improvement. Out of 44 SC applicants, two were selected, while one out of 22 ST applicants and three out of 106 OBC applicants were chosen. In a detailed response, Prof Shireesh Kedare, the director of IIT Bombay reaffirmed the institute’s dedication

t IIT Delhi, six departments have no SC, ST or OBC faculty members. Twenty-two departments have no ST faculty, 14 departments are without SC faculty, and nine departments have no OBC representation. Similarly, at IIT Guwahati, 14 departments have no ST faculty, while six departments lack SC faculty, and five are without OBC faculty. IIT Bhubaneswar does not have a single faculty member from the ST category.

the ministry of education issued a directive to all centrally funded higher education institutions, including IITs, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and National Institutes of Technology (NITs), to fill vacant faculty positions in reserved categories by September 2022. However, the RTI data shows that many institutions have failed to comply with these directives.

The APSSC has voiced its concerns publicly, stating on social media platform X, ‘Our latest RTI reveals that despite getting hundreds of applications, @iitbombay is not recruiting SC ST OBC faculty members and is violating the reservation norms and mission mode recruitment. Who will hold these savarna institutions accountable

IIT Bombay, the RTI data revealed a significant lack of diversity among the faculty. While eight departments have no SC, ST or OBC faculty members at all, 25 departments are without any ST faculty, 12 have no SC representation, and another 12 have no OBC faculty. Out of more than 670 general category faculty members at the institute, only 58 are from the SC, ST, and OBC categories.

A recent Right to Information (RTI) request filed by the Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSSC) has raised serious concerns about the under-representation of faculty from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) across several Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Despite a special recruitment drive launched to address this issue, key IITs, including Delhi, Bombay, Bhubaneswar, and Guwahati, have fallen short of their objectives

the RTI data revealed a significant lack of diversity among the faculty. While eight departments have no SC, ST or OBC faculty members at all