UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurates SEMICON India 2026
Q1. The India Semiconductor Mission, which acts as the nodal agency for implementing the Semicon India Programme, has been constituted in which one of the following ways?
- A. As a statutory body established under the Information Technology Act, 2000, exercising administrative and financial powers
- B. As an attached office of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology headed by the Principal Scientific Adviser
- C. As an independent business division within the Digital India Corporation, vested with administrative and financial powers
- D. As a registered society under the Department of Science and Technology with delegated administrative powers
Q2. Consider the following statements comparing the first and second phases of India's semiconductor programme:
1. Semicon 1.0 was approved with a total outlay of ₹76,000 crore, whereas Semicon 2.0 has been approved with a larger total outlay of ₹1,27,500 crore.
2. Unlike Semicon 1.0, Semicon 2.0 extends incentives to firms manufacturing or conducting R&D on semiconductor manufacturing machines, materials, chemicals and gases.
3. The Design Linked Incentive component is implemented with the Semi-Conductor Laboratory, Mohali as its nodal agency, while the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing appraises semiconductor fab proposals.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- Semicon 1.0 was approved with a total outlay of ₹76,000 crore, whereas Semicon 2.0 has been approved with a larger total outlay of ₹1,27,500 crore.
- Unlike Semicon 1.0, Semicon 2.0 extends incentives to firms manufacturing or conducting R&D on semiconductor manufacturing machines, materials, chemicals and gases.
- The Design Linked Incentive component is implemented with the Semi-Conductor Laboratory, Mohali as its nodal agency, while the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing appraises semiconductor fab proposals.
- A. 1 and 3 only
- B. 1 and 2 only
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Q3. Consider the following schemes:
1. Scheme for Setting up of Semiconductor Fabs in India
2. Scheme for Setting up of Display Fabs in India
3. Design Linked Incentive Scheme
4. Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme
Which of the above is/are correctly identified as components of the Semicon India Programme?
- Scheme for Setting up of Semiconductor Fabs in India
- Scheme for Setting up of Display Fabs in India
- Design Linked Incentive Scheme
- Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme
- A. 1, 2 and 3
- B. 2 and 4 only
- C. 1 and 4 only
- D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Q4. Under the Semicon India Programme, financial support for chip design firms is sanctioned under the authority of which one of the following nodal agencies?
- A. Semi-Conductor Laboratory, Mohali, an autonomous research and fabrication body under MeitY
- B. Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research, a research society under MeitY
- C. Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification Directorate, an attached office under MeitY
- D. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, a premier research and development organisation under MeitY
Q5. Which one of the following statements about the agency that operationalises Semicon 2.0, approved by the Union Cabinet, is correct?
- A. It is operationalised by NITI Aayog, which alone appraises every semiconductor fab proposal received in the country
- B. It is operationalised by the India Semiconductor Mission, which continues as the nodal agency under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- C. It is operationalised exclusively by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, with all fiscal support routed through state governments
- D. It is operationalised by the Department of Science and Technology, which holds entire responsibility for all chip design incentives in India
Q6. SEMICON India 2026, held at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, was jointly organised by which one of the following pairs?
- A. The India Semiconductor Mission and the Confederation of Indian Industry
- B. The India Brand Equity Foundation and SEMI, the global industry association
- C. The India Semiconductor Mission and SEMI, the global industry association
- D. The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association and Invest India
Q7. Which one of the following is described by the Government as the country's biggest semiconductor industry event, whose fifth edition was held at Yashobhoomi, Dwarka in September 2026?
- A. India Mobile Congress
- B. SEMICON India Conference and Exhibition
- C. IESA Vision Summit
- D. Electronica India Expo
Q8. Consider the following statements about Yashobhoomi, the venue of SEMICON India 2026:
1. It is Phase 1 of the India International Convention and Expo Centre and was dedicated to the nation in September 2023.
2. Its exhibition halls, spread over more than one lakh square metres, form the only MICE facility in the world powered entirely by rooftop solar and are reserved exclusively for government events.
3. Its convention centre has the largest LED media facade in the country.
4. The Delhi Airport Metro Express line was extended to a new station named Yashobhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 to serve it.
Which of the above is/are correctly identified?
- It is Phase 1 of the India International Convention and Expo Centre and was dedicated to the nation in September 2023.
- Its exhibition halls, spread over more than one lakh square metres, form the only MICE facility in the world powered entirely by rooftop solar and are reserved exclusively for government events.
- Its convention centre has the largest LED media facade in the country.
- The Delhi Airport Metro Express line was extended to a new station named Yashobhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 to serve it.
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 2 and 3 only
- C. 3 and 4 only
- D. 1, 3 and 4
Q9. The convention centre at Yashobhoomi contains how many convention rooms in all, counting the main auditorium and the grand ballroom along with the meeting rooms?
Q10. Several of the semiconductor units approved in Gujarat, Assam and Odisha are described as 'OSAT' units. The term refers to which one of the following?
- A. An outsourced design house that works exclusively on IP cores and system-on-chip designs for foreign fabless firms
- B. An outsourced facility that assembles, tests, marks and packages chips whose wafers are fabricated elsewhere
- C. A wafer fabrication plant that must necessarily carry out all assembly and packaging of its own chips in-house
- D. A laboratory that exclusively undertakes reliability testing of imported electronic components before customs clearance
Q11. Consider the following statements about two electronics manufacturing schemes of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology:
1. The Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing, launched in 2020, targeted mobile phones and specified electronic components, whereas the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme targets components, sub-assemblies and capital goods for electronics manufacturing.
2. The Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme, notified in 2025, has a tenure of six years, which includes an optional one-year gestation period.
3. Unlike the Production Linked Incentive Scheme, the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme is open exclusively to wholly Indian-owned firms and permits no foreign investment in any approved project.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- The Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing, launched in 2020, targeted mobile phones and specified electronic components, whereas the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme targets components, sub-assemblies and capital goods for electronics manufacturing.
- The Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme, notified in 2025, has a tenure of six years, which includes an optional one-year gestation period.
- Unlike the Production Linked Incentive Scheme, the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme is open exclusively to wholly Indian-owned firms and permits no foreign investment in any approved project.
- A. 1 only
- B. 2 and 3 only
- C. 1 and 2 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3