New Delhi, June 25 -- India should begin its semiconductor journey with packaging and testing operations before moving into advanced chip manufacturing, while scale, high-quality infrastructure and a robust electronics ecosystem will be critical to the sector's long-term success, according to former NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani

"You cannot straight away start producing all kinds of semiconductors. The appropriate thing is to start with the simplest elements of the semiconductor, which include packaging and testing," Virmani told ANI in an interview.

He said semiconductors should be viewed as part of a larger electronics ecosystem and that India must build scale and quality supply chains.

"The whole electronic supply chain depends o...