IndiaAI Mission Advances AI-Driven Governance and Public Service Delivery through Collaborative Roadmaps, Innovation Challenges and Capacity Building

India, July 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

India's AI policy is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of democratizing technology. It is aimed at creating economic opportunities and employment for youth, while addressing risks associated with it.

India's AI strategy builds on India's vibrant IT sector with annual revenue of 300 billion dollars and 60 Lakh strong workforce. IndiaAI Mission supports India's AI ambitions under seven pillars, as under:

Under the Application Development Initiative (IADI), IndiaAI conducted a workshop on AI in public service delivery on 5th April 2024, bringing together representatives from the Central and State Governments. The workshop supported Ministries and Departments in assessing their data capabilities and identifying AI use cases, fostering a consultative and collaborative approach to developing AI roadmaps for governance and public service delivery.

Through innovation challenges, grant programmes and hackathons, IADI has built a pipeline of AI solutions across priority sectors including healthcare, agriculture, governance, climate, cybersecurity and financial regulation, with pathways from ideation to pilot deployment and scale. Under this pillar, the IndiaAI Mission has launched 11 national-level hackathons and innovation challenges across these sectors.

viii. The IndiaAI Challenge for Transforming Governance, in partnership with the Real Time Governance Society (RTGS), Government of Andhra Pradesh, addresses AI use cases across key departments. Applications have been received, Stage 1 evaluations are underway, and prototype development and pilot implementation are planned.

These initiatives collectively demonstrate that State Governments are actively consulted and engaged through workshops, consultations, and collaborative challenge mechanisms in the formulation and implementation of AI roadmaps for governance and public service delivery.

AI Centres of Excellence: Government has approved a scheme for the establishment of 58 Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence (AI-CoEs) across States and Union Territories, in collaboration with the respective State/UT Governments and industry partners. Under the approved framework, Two Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence (AI-CoEs) have been allocated for establishment in the state of Tamil Nadu.

IndiaAI Data & AI Labs (ITIs/Polytechnics): Under the IndiaAI FutureSkills pillar, 543 Data & AI Labs across ITIs and Polytechnics in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities have been approved for establishment to provide training in AI, data annotation, data curation and applied data science. As part of this initiative, 18 Data & AI Labs have been allocated for establishment in Tamil Nadu.

IndiaAI Fellowships: Under the IndiaAI FutureSkills pillar, fellowships are provided to undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students for AI education and research. A total of 686 fellowships have been awarded nationally across 178 institutions. Of these, 162 fellowships have been awarded to students from Tamil Nadu, comprising 96 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate and 32 PhD fellowships.

IndiaAI Impact Summit: India hosted the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16th to 21st February 2026. The Hon'ble Prime Minister called upon Ministries and Departments at the inauguration of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to actively engage with the India AI Impact Expo and identify AI applications relevant to their respective domains to accelerate AI adoption across the Government.

Pursuant to these directions and the deliberations held during the Summit, the Cabinet Secretariat coordinated with Ministries and Departments to identify opportunities for leveraging AI to address governance, service delivery, operational efficiency, and sector-specific challenges. This exercise resulted in the identification of 762 problem statements from 62 Ministries and Departments, which were subsequently shared with MeitY for facilitating AI-enabled interventions.

The Government has undertaken the following steps to ensure that deployment of AI in Government systems, including for citizen-facing services, adheres to standards of transparency, accountability, data privacy, algorithmic fairness and independent audit:

This information was submitted by Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Shri Jitin Prasada in Lok Sabha on 29.07.2026.

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