Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) programme

India’s Department of Science & Technology had set up a program called Quantum-Enabled Science & Technology (QuEST) in 2018.
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.
It 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.
It will help in improving the state of national security as quantum-level encrypted information becomes a common communication standard.
The Union Budget 2020-21 proposed to spend Rs 8000 crores ($ 1.2 billion) on the newly launched National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications (NMQTA).