Technology Development Board signs ₹150 crore agreement with QNu Labs for quantum-secure technologies
16 October 2026
The Technology Development Board of the Department of Science and Technology signed an agreement with QNu Labs Private Limited, Bengaluru.
The Board will give ₹150 crore from its Research Development and Innovation Fund, in a project whose total cost is ₹300 crore.
The support takes the form of Optionally Convertible Debt.
The project will build the indigenous technology backbone for India's Quantum Secure and Sensing Networks, moving technologies from Technology Readiness Level 4 to 5 up to Technology Readiness Level 9.
It rests on four pillars: identity security, location integrity, network security and time integrity.
The work covers quantum-secure physical unclonable functions, compact quantum magnetometers for navigation where GPS is denied, chip-based and satellite-based quantum key distribution, and atomic clock technology.
In plain words
QKD Quantum Key Distribution — A method of sharing encryption keys whose security rests on the laws of quantum physics rather than on computational difficulty.
TRL Technology Readiness Level — A nine-step scale that measures how close a technology is to actual deployment.