India's National Quantum Mission: four hubs, one goal.

Department of Science & Technology launched the Quantum Enabled Science & Technology (QuEST) programme with an ₹80 crore budget, financing 51 academic research projects across IISc Bengaluru, Raman Research Institute (RRI), and TIFR Mumbai to build early single-photon setups and laser-cooling apparatus.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the planned National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA) with an intended ₹8,000 crore outlay over 5 years, elevating quantum technology to national strategic priority.

MeitY, C-DAC, IISc Bengaluru, and IIT Roorkee jointly rolled out QSim (Quantum Computer Simulator Toolkit), India's first cloud-accessible quantum simulation workbench on PARAM high-performance computing clusters.

The Indian Army, backed by the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), established the dedicated Quantum Laboratory at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE) in Mhow, MP, focusing on military QKD and tactical crypto systems.

DRDO and IIT Delhi successfully demonstrated continuous Quantum Key Distribution over a commercial dark-fiber link exceeding 100 kilometres between Prayagraj and Vindhyachal in Uttar Pradesh.

The Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) under DoT published TEC GR 91000:2022, establishing baseline generic requirements for Quantum Key Distribution systems in telecom networks (released 26 October 2022).

The Union Cabinet formally approved the National Quantum Mission with an outlay of ₹6,003.65 crore over an eight-year execution window (FY 2023–24 to FY 2030–31).

Four independent Section-8 companies were formally incorporated at IISc, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, and IIT Delhi. TEC published standards TEC 91020:2024 (QRNG), TEC 91010:2023 (Quantum-Safe Cryptography), and TEC 910018:2025 (PQC Migration).

QNu Labs and the Indian Army's Southern Command Signals demonstrated a 500 km multi-node QKD network across the Rajasthan sector using the Quantum Suraksha Kavach (QSK) rack over existing dark fiber, announced at ESTIC 2025.

DRDO Technology Development Fund signed agreement with Zero mK India for 20 mK dilution refrigerators (mentored by SSPL); PRAGATI Q-Foundry commercialization summit convened; QpiAI 25-qubit Indus transmon processor deployed for pilot institutional access.

Targeting 50–1,000 physical qubits across superconducting and neutral-atom platforms, ISRO SAQTI space-to-ground QKD satellite launch, a 2,000 km nationwide inter-city QKD backbone, and training 25,000 quantum specialists.