The year 2025 stands as a defining chapter in India’s development journey. It saw policies translate into progress and intent into impact. Today, in this Special Series, ‘Year of Reforms’, we bring you India’s progress in the technology sector in 2025.
In 2025, India demonstrated a shift from technology adoption to technology creation, supported by large-scale investment and institutional reforms.
The year saw major advances in artificial intelligence. Under the India AI Mission, the government committed over ten thousand crore rupees to build ethical, human-centric AI systems. Recently, the country climbed to third place in Stanford University’s 2025 Global AI Vibrancy rankings. 2025 also marked decisive progress in semiconductors and advanced manufacturing.
Last year, India launched two facilities in Noida and Bengaluru dedicated to 3-nanometre chip design, placing the country within the global high-end chip ecosystem. Similarly, in September last year, the country’s first indigenously developed Vikram 32-bit chip was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Semicon India 2025 conference.
The year also recorded significant milestones in space and strategic technology. The successful launch of NISAR, the world’s most advanced Earth-observation radar satellite, marked a historic India-US collaboration. Furthermore, PM Modi inaugurated Skyroot Aerospace’s new Infinity Campus in Hyderabad last month and unveiled the company’s first orbital rocket, Vikram-I.
Meanwhile, 2025 also saw structural reform in nuclear energy and scientific governance. The Atomic Energy Bill, 2025, known as Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI), was approved by the Union Cabinet last year. The move opened the sector to private participation for the first time.
Together, these developments underscored 2025 as the year technological self-determination began translating into an enduring national capability aligned with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.
