From Jharkhand and Bihar to India’s chip lines: why semiconductor jobs are open to everyone

The women running the chip packaging lines at CG Power's plant in Sanand, Gujarat, came from Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and the North East, with ordinary schooling and no idea they would ever work in semiconductors. Trained in Malaysia, on their first trip out of their home towns, they now explain chip packaging "like confident engineers", says Amitesh Kumar Sinha, Additional Secretary at MeitY and CEO of the India Semiconductor Mission. That, he told Shradha Sharma, Founder and CE