{"id":958881,"date":"2025-09-02T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958881"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:59:27","slug":"private-sector-led-investment-in-semicon-sector-must-increase-rs-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/02\/private-sector-led-investment-in-semicon-sector-must-increase-rs-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector-led investment in semicon sector must increase: RS Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: RS Sharma, the former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has called on the private companies to increase investment in the domestic semiconductor sector, adding that this would be crucial to India\u2019s leadership in this industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate sector investment is modest. If we want leadership in semiconductors, this must change. Innovation should not be seen as risky, but as essential. Failures must be accepted as part of the learning process,\u201d said Sharma, who also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) between May 2014 to July 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: RS Sharma, the former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has called on the private companies to increase investment in the domestic semiconductor sector, adding that this would be crucial to India\u2019s leadership in this industry. \u201cPrivate sector investment is modest. If we want leadership in semiconductors, this must change. Innovation should not be seen as risky, but as essential. Failures must be accepted as part of the learning process,\u201d said Sharma, who also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) between May 2014 to July 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}