[1] The Government of India created an indigenous development programme as they had difficulty purchasing foreign supercomputers.

[3] India had faced difficulties in the 1980s when trying to purchase supercomputers for academic and weather forecasting purposes.

[7] After this problem, in the same year, the Government of India decided to promote an indigenous supercomputer development programme.

[6] The Indian Government has proposed to commit US$2.5 billion to supercomputing research during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012–2017).

[13] Additionally, it was later revealed that India plans to develop a supercomputer with processing power in the exaflops range.

[20] Whilst previously computer were assembled in India, the NSM aims to produce the components within the country.

[19] The aim is to create a cluster of geographically distributed high-performance computing centers linked over a high-speed network, connecting various academic and research institutions across India.

[21] The mission involves both capacity and capability machines and includes standing up three petascale supercomputers.

[21] The third and final phase intends to deploy fully indigenous supercomputers,[19] with an aimed speed of 45 petaFLOPS within the NKN.

In addition to 5,930 specialists from more than 100 institutes using the newly constructed facilities, 1.75 lakh (175,000) people received training in HPCs.