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Bharatiya Janata Party · 2024
Claim
Partly accurate
Delivery
Partly delivered
The mission was operationalised as promised and its first hard deliverable is now overdue. The Ministry of Science and Technology told Parliament on 4 February 2026 that the National Quantum Mission runs on a ₹6,003.65 crore outlay over eight years, that four Thematic Hubs were established in 2024-25 as Section 8 companies with governing boards, that they are 'now fully functional', and that fabrication and central facilities are being built at IISc Bengaluru and IITs Bombay, Kanpur and Delhi. The mission's own three-year deliverable, set from its April 2023 approval, was a quantum computer with 20 to 50 physical qubits. The answer reports no qubit count at all.
“Quantum Tech Frontier — We will operationalise the National Quantum Mission to position Bharat as a global leader in quantum technology, harnessing its potential to revolutionise various sectors and spearhead technological innovation.”No CAG performance audit published
No CAG performance audit covering this scheme has been published. The absence of an audit is not evidence that the claim is either accurate or inaccurate.
No CAG audit of the National Quantum Mission has been tabled. The figures here are the implementing ministry's own.
No audit period to plot — no CAG performance audit covering this scheme has been published.
Four Thematic Hubs established in 2024-25 under a ₹6,003.65 crore, eight-year mission
The mission's stated deliverables are 20-50 physical qubits in three years, 50-100 in five and 50-1000 in eight, plus satellite quantum communication over 2,000 km, inter-city quantum key distribution over 2,000 km and a multi-node quantum network. No progress against any of these targets is reported.
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 861, National Quantum Mission (NQM) — answer by the Ministry of Science and Technology
The 2024 promise is to operationalise something that already existed on paper: "We will operationalise the National Quantum Mission to position Bharat as a global leader in quantum technology." The mission was approved by Cabinet in April 2023, a year before the manifesto.
Operationalisation has happened, and the ministry describes it in institutional terms. The Ministry of Science and Technology told the Lok Sabha on 4 February 2026 that the mission runs "with an outlay of ₹6003.65 crore for a period of eight years", that "four Thematic Hubs (T-Hubs) have been established in the financial year 2024-25", incorporated as Section 8 companies with their own governing boards, that "The hubs are now fully functional", and that "State of art Fabrication and Central facilities are also being established at IISc. Bengaluru, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi."
That is real. Quantum research in India was scattered across individual laboratories; four funded hubs with fabrication facilities is the infrastructure the field needs.
What makes this mission unusually easy to hold to account is that it published hard, numerical deliverables, and the answer restates them: "Develop intermediate scale quantum computers with 20-50 physical qubits, 50-100 physical qubits and 50-1000 physical qubits in 3 years, 5 years and 8 years, respectively", plus satellite-based quantum communication between ground stations 2,000 km apart, inter-city quantum key distribution over 2,000 km on existing fibre, a multi-node quantum network with quantum memories and repeaters, and specified sensitivities for magnetometers, gravimeters and atomic clocks.
Counting from the April 2023 approval, the three-year mark fell in April 2026. The three-year deliverable was a 20-to-50 qubit machine. This answer, given in February 2026, reports no qubit count — not for any hub, not for any prototype. Nor does it report progress on the communication, network or sensing targets.
Absence of a figure is not proof of failure, and quantum hardware is genuinely hard: no country builds these machines on schedule. But a mission that set explicit numerical milestones and then answers a direct question about progress with governance structures rather than results has chosen what to disclose.
The term runs to 2029 and the mission to 2031, so this is an interim reading. Operationalisation was promised and delivered; the outputs it was operationalised for are not yet reported. Our verdict is partly accurate.
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Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 861, National Quantum Mission (NQM) — answer by the Ministry of Science and Technology
“The Government of India is implementing the National Quantum Mission (NQM) with an outlay of ₹6003.65 crore for a period of eight years… Under the Mission, four Thematic Hubs (T-Hubs) have been established in the financial year 2024-25. These hubs have been incorporated as Section-8 Companies by their respective host institutions… State of art Fabrication and Central facilities are also being established at IISc. Bengaluru, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi. Funds have been released to all four T-Hubs to initiate their operations. The hubs are now fully functional… The implementation of National Quantum Mission has broadly three timelines i.e. 3 years, 5 years and 8 years. Following are the key deliverables set under the mission: 1. Develop intermediate scale quantum computers with 20-50 physical qubits, 50-100 physical qubits and 50-1000 physical qubits in 3 years, 5 years and 8 years, respectively. 2. Develop satellite based secure quantum communications between two ground stations over a range of 2000 kilometres… 3. Develop inter-city quantum key distribution over 2000 km with trusted nodes… 4. Develop multi-node quantum network with quantum memories, entanglement swapping and synchronised quantum repeaters at each node (2-3 nodes).”