Inside Amaravati’s pioneering leap to quantum frontier

Andhra Pradesh State Quantum Mission Director C.V. Sridhar and L Venkata Subramaniam CEO of Qbit Force and Srsti Quantum discussing at the quantum lab at Medha Towers in Gannnavaram. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri For decades, advanced quantum hardware belonged exclusively to a handful of elite Western and East Asian laboratories. In this expensive, closed-off club, developing nations remained spectators or mere end users. In Amaravati, engineers and policymakers are working to upend that hierarchy. Starting from scratch, the Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV) is turning a greenfield blueprint into South Asia’s premier deep tech hub, betting that India shouldn’t just use quantum computers; it should build them.That ambition traces back to Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, whose push for frontier technology in Amaravati looked well beyond buying a foreign supercomputer. When shaping the project, an initiative backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Naidu insisted that simply importing a machine would fall short; Andhra Pradesh needed a self-sustaining hardware ecosystem built from the ground up. Published - November 14, 2026 09:05 am IST