The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) funded Silicon Photonics CoE-CPPICS Centre IIT Madras has already laid a strong foundation for India silicon photonics program by establishing core infrastructure, developing indigenous PDK libraries, advanced test facilities and prototype products targeting advanced applications during its Phase-I R&D program. Considering the context of India nascent semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem and supply chain, and of course non-existing silicon photonics foundries; it is therefore very important to follow a holistic approach for creating proprietary IP generations through systematic R&D collaboration with CMOS foundries (domestic/international) for the development of advanced silicon photonics technology and with domestic packaging companies (like IZMO Microsystems) for generating indigenous co-packaged optics portfolios for various system-level applications; such as handling larger amount of digital data in data centres, artificial intelligence and quantum accelerated high performance computing, 5G/6G accelerated high-speed analog communication, sensing and ranging (including LiDAR). Thus focusing on a specific set of products and applications may result in an unforeseeable bottleneck for catching up advancements of core silicon photonics technology in terms of higher manufacturing yields, hybrid process integrations, compactness (including 3D integration) and device performance superiorities.