India Sets Up Quantum-Enabled Science & Technology Program

(IndiaToday) India’s Department of Science & Technology has set up a program called Quantum-Enabled Science & Technology (QuEST). As a part of the program, it will invest a sum of Rs 80 crore in a span of three years to facilitate research in this field. In what is being described as the Phase 1 of India’s quantum computing program, the country will be laying out the basic infrastructure that is needed to promote research in this field. The government believes this will help in improving the state of national security as quantum-level encrypted information becomes a common communication standard.