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Date: 2026-03-13 Category: Press Release State: Union Government Country: India

AI models developed under IndiaAI Mission represent important progress in building India’s own AI capabilities tailored to local languages and use-cases

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**Executive Summary** This document outlines the progress and initiatives under the IndiaAI Mission, launched in March 2024 to bolster India's AI capabilities. Key initiatives include the AIKosha platform for AI models and tools, the iGOT-AI courses for capacity building, and the IndiaAI Startups Global program. The information was submitted by the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology in Rajya Sabha on March 13, 2026. **Key Points / Main Content** * **IndiaAI Mission Objectives:** * Launched in March 2024 to build a robust AI ecosystem in India. * Aims to expand access to AI technologies, support innovation, and develop AI solutions for India-centric challenges. * **AIKosha: IndiaAI Datasets Platform:** * Provides access to AI models, development tools, and resources across various fields (health, agriculture, education) with data privacy safeguards. * Acts as a shared library for building new AI tools and solutions, including Text-to-Speech models in Indian languages. * Offers secure API-based access and an AI Sandbox environment for model training and experimentation. * Accessible at https://aikosh.indiaai.gov.in/home. * **iGOT-AI Courses:** * Aims to strengthen AI awareness and capacity building among government officials and stakeholders. * The iGOT Karmayogi platform offers over 176 courses on AI and emerging technologies from various institutions. * As of the document's release, over 7.2 million enrolments and 5.3 million completions have been recorded. * The "YUVA AI for All" course is also available, with 128,848 enrolments and 83,010 completions. * **IndiaAI Startups Global: International Acceleration Program:** * A collaboration with Station F (Paris) and HEC Paris to help Indian AI startups expand into the European market. * Supports startups developing solutions for governance, smart cities, document intelligence, and enterprise automation. * Thirty applications are being developed for India-specific problems in sectors like Agriculture, Health, and Climate Change. * 10 startups identified from hackathons and innovation challenges are being scaled. * **Development of Sovereign Models:** * Twelve teams shortlisted for developing indigenous foundational AI/Large Language Models. * Models developed by Sarvam AI, BharatGen, Gnani, and Socket were launched at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026. * These models show strong performance on Indic language benchmarks, with some outperforming frontier models. * **IndiaAI Compute:** * Provides affordable access to high-end compute infrastructure for startups, researchers, academic institutions, and government organizations. * Over 38,000 GPUs have been empaneled through 14 AI service providers. * Data centers are located across major cities, including Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. * The IndiaAI Compute Portal (https://compute.indiaai.gov.in) allows eligible users to access GPU resources. * An additional 20,000 GPUs are being added to expand compute capacity. * **AI Impact Summit 2026:** * Announced investment commitments of around $250 billion in AI infrastructure, reflecting global confidence in India's AI ecosystem. * **Shortlisted AI Solutions (Annexure II):** * Details of 30 shortlisted AI solutions under the IndiaAI Application Development Initiative are provided, covering themes such as Agriculture, Climate, Healthcare, Learning Disabilities, and Governance. These solutions address various challenges including sustainable agriculture, disease prediction, early detection of health issues, educational support, and streamlining public services. **Impact Analysis** * **Government Officials and Other Stakeholders** * **Impact:** Enhanced AI awareness and capacity building through the iGOT-AI initiative and access to resources via AIKosha. * **Action Required:** Participate in iGOT-AI courses and utilize the AIKosha platform for AI development. * **Indian AI Startups** * **Impact:** Opportunities for global market expansion through the IndiaAI Startups Global program, access to compute infrastructure via IndiaAI Compute, and support for developing innovative solutions. * **Action Required:** Participate in the global acceleration program, leverage IndiaAI Compute resources, and develop solutions for India-specific challenges. * **Researchers and Academic Institutions** * **Impact:** Access to high-end compute infrastructure through IndiaAI Compute for AI research and development. * **Action Required:** Utilize the IndiaAI Compute Portal to access GPU resources. * **General Public (indirectly)** * **Impact:** Development of AI solutions addressing India-centric challenges in sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and governance, leading to improved public services and societal well-being. * **Action Required:** No direct action is specified for the general public, but they are beneficiaries of the developed AI solutions.

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IndiaAI Mission: A national mission aimed at building a robust AI ecosystem, expanding access to AI technologies, supporting innovation, and promoting AI solutions for India-centric challenges. iGOT initiative: An initiative focused on strengthening AI awareness and capacity building among government officials and other stakeholders. AIKosha: A platform providing access to AI models, development tools, and other resources, acting as a shared library for AI models. IndiaAI Startups Global: International Acceleration Program: A program supporting Indian AI startups in accessing global innovation ecosystems and expanding into international markets. IndiaAI Compute: A government initiative providing affordable access to high-end compute infrastructure for AI innovation.
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Ministry of Electronics & IT AI models developed under IndiaAI Mission represent important progress in building India’s own AI capabilities tailored to local languages and use-cases iGOT initiative strengthening AI awareness and capacity building among government officials and other stakeholders Posted On: 13 MAR 2026 4:13PM by PIB Delhi Government of India launched the IndiaAI Mission in March 2024 with the objective of building a robust ecosystem of AI in the country. The Mission seeks to expand access to AI technologies, support innovation and promote the development of AI solutions addressing India-centric challenges. AIKosha: IndiaAI Datasets Platform AIKosha is platform which provides access AI models, development tools and other resources. These belong to various fields such as health, agriculture, and education, with safeguards for data privacy. AIKosh acts as a shared library of AI models that anyone can use to build new AI tools and solutions. Eg. Text-to-Speech (TTS) models in Indian languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, and Malayalam. The sovereign model being developed as part of IndiaAI mission such as Sarvam are also available on AIKosh. In addition, AIKosh provides a secure API-based access, an AI Sandbox environment for model training and experimentation. These models, datasets and other information can be accessed from the website https://aikosh.indiaai.gov.i n/home. iGOT-AI Courses The iGOT initiative is aimed at strengthening AI awareness and capacity building among government officials and other stakeholders. The iGOT Karmayogi platform currently offers over 176 courses on Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies (Details in Annexure-I), published by a wide range of institutions, organizations, and academic bodies. To date, these courses have cumulatively recorded 72,99,149 enrolments and 53,79,235 completions from registered learners on the platform. The YUVA AI for All course offered by the IndiaAI Mission is also available on the iGOTKarmayogi platform in English and Hindi. Together, the two versions of the course have recorded 1,28,848 enrolments and 83,010 completions from registered learners on the platform to date.IndiaAI Startups Global: International Acceleration Program The IndiaAI Startups Global program was launched in collaboration with Station F (Paris) and HEC Paris. Under this program, 10 Indian AI startups have been selected and supported to expand into the European market. It supports Indian AI startups in accessing global innovation ecosystems and expanding into international markets. These startups are already developing innovative solutions across sectors such as governance, smart cities, document intelligence, and enterprise automation. Their work highlights the growing maturity of India’s AI startup ecosystem and its ability to build practical, deployment-ready solutions. Further, under the IndiaAI Mission, thirty (30) applications are being developed focusing on India-specific problems. These applications belong to critical sectors notably Agriculture, Health, Climate change and disaster. Details are at Annexure-II. Sector-specific hackathons and Innovation challenges have also been organised with the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, the Geological Survey of India, Ministry of Ayush, Ministry of MSME, NFRA and National Cancer Grid (NCG) to further encourage focused AI solution development. From these hackathons and innovation challenges, 10 startups have been identified for scaling up the solutions. Development of Sovereign Models Under the IndiaAI mission, Twelve (12) teams have been shortlisted in the phase 1 for development of indigenous foundational AI models/Large Language Models. Models developed by Sarvam AI, BharatGen, Gnani and Socket were launched during the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026. These models represent important progress in building India’s own AI capabilities tailored to local languages and use-cases. These sovereign models show strong performance on Indic language benchmarks. In some cases, these perform better than leading frontier models for Indian language tasks. For instance, models developed by Sarvam AI have demonstrated high accuracy in document understanding and Indic language processing. IndiaAI Compute The Government is cognisant of the importance of compute infrastructure for the innovation in AI. As India advances towards using AI to solve real-life problems and develop AI models, developers require access to large-scale compute for both training and inference. Common compute under IndiaAI Mission is providing affordable access to high-end compute infrastructure to startups, researchers, academic institutions and government organizations. More than 38,000 GPUs have been empaneled through 14 AI service providers to provide shared AI compute infrastructure Data centres located across the country including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Noida and Jamnagar are providing these services IndiaAI Compute Portal (https://compute.indiaai.gov.in) enables eligible users to discover and access GPU compute resources The Government recognises compute as a public good for inclusive AI development. In this direction, compute capacity is being further expanded by adding 20,000 GPUs under the IndiaAI Mission (currently under process).The Government is also working to strengthen the data centre ecosystem. The Union Budget 2026–27 announced a long-term tax holiday for data centre and cloud infrastructure investment. The AI Impact Summit 2026 saw investment commitments of around $250 billion in AI infrastructure. This reflects a strong global confidence in India’s AI ecosystem. ******* Annexure I List of courses under the theme: AI & Emerging Tech in Governance S. No. Course 1. AI Using Google Bard and ChatGPT for Beginners 2. Artificial Intelligence for Everyone 3. AI Essentials: Leveraging Meta Bots for WhatsApp Automation 4. Artificial Intelligence (AI) 5. AI for Presentations 6. Introduction to Leveraging AI and ChatGPT 7. GenAI for Everyone 8. Evolution and Application of Artificial Intelligence 9. AI in Government: Transforming Public Service Delivery 10. AI Ethics for Governance 11. Responsible AI in the Generative AI Era 12. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Cybersecurity 13. Governing Artificial Intelligence 14. Preventing Cybercrime: AI-based Threats and Measures 15. AI in Agri Food Systems 16. AI Applications in Governance 17. Basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)18. YUVA AI for All 19. Model Artificial Intelligence Law 20. DHFC - Module 11 - Application of AI and ML in Healthcare 21. Artificial Intelligence: Technology Ethics and Impact 22. Artificial Intelligence_L2 23. Gen AI and AR-VR Fundamentals 24. Ensuring AI Governance of India 25. Adopting AI for Cyber Resiliency 26. AI Policies and Governance in India 27. GenAI: Enhancing Public Sector Efficiency 28. Artificial Intelligence Enabling Education Outreach 29. Enhancing Microsoft Documents with Artificial Intelligence 30. Digital Transformation: Building the Future with AI 31. Artificial Intelligence in Banking Financial Services and Insurance 32. Artificial Intelligence for Investments 33. Artificial Intelligence: Driving Transformation at Speed and Scale 34. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 35. Artificial Intelligence for Social Good 36. Artificial Intelligence in Finance 37. Foundations of Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Ethics 38. Introduction to AI, ML and Robotic Process Automation and Applications 39. Core Areas of Artificial Intelligence40. AI in Infrastructure and Urban Development 41. Ethical AI: Navigating Security and Privacy in the Digital Era 42. Artificial Intelligence: Unlocking Potential and Securing Trust 43. Introduction to Blockchain Technology and Applications in Power Sector 44. Handling Data with Artificial Intelligence: A Beginners Guide 45. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 46. Basics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Defence 47. Generative AI in Public Policy and Governance 48. AI Applications in Government 49. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Good: Innovate Empower and Transform 50. Introduction to Robotic Process Automation RPA and AI Based Automation 51. Responsible AI in Action 52. AI Regulatory Policies and Implementation Considerations 53. Fundamentals of Generative Artificial Intelligence 54. Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Agentic AI 55. Artificial Intelligence and Digital Public Infrastructure Stack 56. Process of Recoupment in Indian Railways 57. Artificial Intelligence for Accessibility and Inclusion 58. Artificial Intelligence Integration in Microsoft Office 365 59. Artificial Intelligence for Public Governance 60. Artificial Intelligence in Heritage Preservation 61. AI for Social Sector Transformation62. Blockchain Basics 63. Sovereign Artificial Intelligence Models for India 64. Emerging Tech and Security in India's Supply Chain Revolution 65. ChatGPT and Generative AI tools for Government Officials 66. AI led Digital Transformation in Urban Governance 67. AI led Digital Transformation in Agriculture 68. AI led Digital Transformation in Education 69. AI led Digital Transformation in Rural Development 70. Introduction to Emerging Technologies 71. इमजगटेोलॉजीजसेपरचय 72. ChatGPT and Generative AI tools: An Introduction 73. AI for Digital Transformation: Machine Learning and Deep Learning 74. AI led Digital Transformation in Healthcare 75. AI for Digital Transformation: Computer Vision 76. Data Storytelling: Narratives and Artificial Intelligence for Impact 77. Core Areas of Artificial Intelligence 78. Fundamentals of Generative Artificial Intelligence 79. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 80. Generative AI in Public Policy and Governance 81. Advanced Prompt Engineering for Everyone 82. Advanced Data Analysis with Generative AI 83. AI for Energy and Biomedical Applications84. AI for Education (Intermediate) 85. AI For Medical Treatment 86. AI for Medical Prognosis 87. AI for Medical Diagnosis 88. Build and Execute an Organisational AI Strategy 89. Blockchain Architecture - Intermediate Concepts 90. Stay Safe in Cyber Space 91. CYBER SECURITY BEST PRACTICES FOR AN ORGANIZATION 92. Cyber Security Basics 93. Cyber Vigilance: What Every Digital Citizen Must Know 94. Cybersecurity 95. Cyber Security and Strategy 96. Cybercrime Investigation 97. Cybersecurity (Basic Level) 98. Awareness and Prevention of Cyberattacks 99. Cybercrime and Digital Forensics 100. Network and Telecom Security - Cyber Security Ecosystem 101. Staying Safe in Cyberspace 102. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Cybersecurity 103. Digital Crime Scene Investigation in Cybercrime 104. Preventing Cybercrime: AI-based Threats and Measures 105. Cyber Shikshaa Fundamentals106. Cyber Security 107. Cyber Security (Intermediate level) 108. Cyber Contraventions and Cyber Offences 109. Cybersecurity and E-Governance Risks 110. Cyber Security Audit 111. Cyber Threats Facing the Nation Creating a Cyber Surakshit Bharat 112. Information Security - Cyber Crimes, Data Security, Data Mining 113. Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Government Personnel 114. Operation Secure Bharat: Responding to A Cyber Crisis 115. Understanding Cyber Security and Digital Privacy 116. Cyber Security Guide for Government Officials 117. Foundation Course on Cyber Security 118. Cyber Torts, Cyber Contravention and Adjudicating Authorities 119. Cyber and CDR Analysis 120. A discussion on the Telecommunication Cybersecurity Rules, 2024 121. Fundamentals of Cybersecurity 122. Integrated Digital Services and Cybersecurity 123. CERT-In and Fundamentals of Cyber Hygiene 124. Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace 125. Introduction to Cyber Security 126. Baseline Cybersecurity Controls for MSMEs 127. Adopting AI for Cyber Resiliency128. The Evolving Role of the CISO in light of Cyber Crime 129. Cybersecurity Phishing and Pharming: Protecting Yourself 130. Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Leaders 131. Introduction to Cybersecurity Incident Response 132. Capital Market Cyber Resilience: Lessons from BSE and ICCL 133. Future of Cyber Security: Strategic Preparedness 134. Cyber Hygiene Essentials 135. AI Adoption and Cybersecurity in Banking 136. Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure Systems 137. Strategic Procurement: Law Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats 138. Cyber Crime Investigation - Basic Course 139. TRINETRA - End to End Cyber Security Solution 140. Digital Infrastructure and Cybersecurity: Growth and Protection 141. Cyber security and Data Privacy: Ethical and Legal Considerations 142. Cybercrime Investigation Fundamentals 143. Zero Trust Architecture and Strategic Cybersecurity Frameworks 144. Investigation of Cybercrime with a Focus on Women and Children 145. Building Resilient Cybersecurity Systems 146. Resilience in Banking: Strategies and Cybersecurity 147. Cybersecurity Masterclass: Managing Information and Risk 148. Cyber Resilience for Bharat 149. Digital Transformation with Cyber Secure Governance150. Understanding Data Protection Rights and Cyber Threat Response 151. Introduction to Networking for Cyber Professionals 152. NotebookLM 153. Quantum Technologies 154. Deep Tech and India 155. Introduction to R and Python Programming 156. Data Science for Policy Makers Part - 1 157. Data Analysis and Decision Making - I (DADM-I) 158. Data Analysis and Decision Making - II (DADM-II) 159. Data Analytics for Public Policymakers and Administrators 160. Advanced Concepts in SQL 161. Data Analysis and Visualization 162. Data Analysis using R 163. Database Design and Introduction to MySQL 164. R Programming 165. Tableau_L2 166. Data Storytelling 167. Design Thinking for Data Professionals 168. Introduction to Smart Grids Information Technology (IT) Applications 169. Introduction to Smart Grid Technologies -Operational Technology (OT) 170. Introduction to Blockchain Technology and Applications in Power Sector 171. Digital Technologies for Climate Resiliency172. Introduction to Semiconductor Nanofabrication Technology 173. Foundations of Cybersecurity 174. Leading with Generative AI 175. Advanced Data Analysis with Generative AI 176. युवाएआईफॉरऑल Annexure II The details of shortlisted AI solution under IndiaAI Application Development Initiative are as under: Sl.No. Name of the Solution Solution Description Theme 1 Promoting regenerative agriculture In-house developed MRV Agriculture practices for a sustainable future (Measurement, Reporting, and using AI Verification) technology designed to ensure the integrity and quality of generated carbon credits. 2 Krishi Sah‘AI’yak - Farming Co- AI-powered conversational co-pilot to Agriculture pilot provide personalized advisory to farmers in Indic languages 3 Kadalcompass - We Amplify the 5G-enabled device that transforms Agriculture voice of water using Hydro- fishing practices using AI, IoUT, and AI,Underwatercom,IoUT with advanced communication technologies Sensor Network 4 KissanCopilot Multilingual Powered by Dhenu's vertical LLM for Agriculture Multimodal personalized AI agriculture, provides personalized Assistant for small holder farmers agricultural advisory services to smallholder farmers. 5 Rapid, chemical-free soil testing End-to-end soil testing approach Agriculture solution using NIR Spectroscopy & leverages an offline app, AI-powered AI/ML models spectral device, and ML models to deliver timely, chemical-free soil analysis.6 AI deep-tech driven quality SAAS platform to provide objective Agriculture assessment of Maize quality assessment of maize including price estimation & sales pipelining. 7 AI-Driven Live Fish Logistics and AI-driven solution that optimizes Agriculture Mortality Reduction in Aquaculture aquaculture operations 8 QScan AI-powered IoT solution that captures Agriculture critical data throughout the fresh produce lifecycle, providing real-time analysis of food quality and actionable insights to sellers. 9 Heatwave Resilience: Integrating Integrates AI-based climate forecasting Climate AI-based Advanced Forecasting for with health data to develop a targeted Extreme Heat Events risk classification system for heat-health impacts 10 Multi-Hazard Susceptibility hazard management system to predict Climate Mapping Landslides, Debris Flows and Flash Floods 11 DeepFlood: Rapid flood inundation Advanced flood inundation mapping Climate mapping using Vision Transformers tool using SAR data and deep learning and Satellite Data models for real-time, automated flood detection 12 Moskeet: Climate impact on AI-powered platform integrates real- Climate mosquito-borne diseases time climate data with mosquito tracking to predict and prevent disease outbreaks. 13 End to End AI Cloud Platform for AI cloud platform for radiology Healthcare Radiology Diagnosis diagnosis, integrating innovative technologies such as CV, GenAI, NLP, Dicom, mobile, and cloud computing 14 NIDAAN (iNtegrated lung health qXR, an advanced AI tool for Healthcare screening &tuberculosIs Detection interpreting chest X-rays (CXR), detects through Ai At National scale) & localizes 30+ findings. 15 Impactful AI solution, preventing early detection of vision threatening Healthcare preventable blindness, for socio- retinal abnormalities economic transformation.16 AI Powered Wearable Technology AI Enabled Hardware Platform for Joint Healthcare for Detection & Diagnosis of Pain Diagnostics and Rehabilitation Musculoskeletal Joint Health Pain. Segments of Healthcare 17 VoxelBox Neuro-informatics platform that allows Healthcare to map the functional maps / connectomics of the human brain 18 Development of Ocellux: An AI- Portable, affordable and highly Healthcare Based Solution for Enhanced Early accessible retina imaging device Diabetic Eye Screening in INDIA. powered by AI for early detection of eye diseases like Diabetic Retinopathy, AMD & Glaucoma 19 Revolutionizing healthcare using AI-powered personal doctor available Healthcare doctor-led AI 24x7 and free of cost, designed to assist people when they are sick, monitor their health through wearables, and act as a health coach to prevent diseases. 20 AI/ML enabled MafPro device MafPro handheld detector provides a Healthcare platform for cancer staging, radiation-free, non-invasive, safe and localization, and margins. cost-effective solution that can reliably detect and adequately evaluate metastases in lymph nodes using AI/ML based algorithms 21 Readabled (Online Dyslexia web-based application designed to help Learning Training) children with dyslexia improve phonetic disabilities awareness through interactive exercises. 22 Voice fusion AI AI application to provide assistive Learning support to individuals with SLDs in disabilities multiple Indian languages 23 ScreenPlay - a digital game based Digital, game-based screening tool Learning screening tool for autism and designed to identify children aged 3 to 6 disabilities related disorders. who may be at risk for autism or related developmental conditions 24 Jiveesha AI-powered diagnostic platform for Learning early detection of SLDs disabilities25 Adaptive Learning and Detection Advanced AI techniques to detect Learning for SLDs Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. 26 Special Educator AI AI-driven system designed to address Learning India’s shortage of special educators disabilities and support children with SLDs. 27 ConvoZen.AI by NoBroker AI-powered conversational platform Governance Technologies that automates customer engagement across channels like chat, voice, email, and social media, offering fast, personalized, and multilingual support. 28 AI contact center AI-powered technologies like machine Governance translation, NLP, ASR and TTS, and multilingual voice recognition to enhance governance by improving communication and accessibility across India’s linguistic diversity 29 Adalat AI: AI solutions for Courts AI-powered platform provides real-time Governance multilingual transcription, translation, live case flow management, and WhatsApp chatbots to streamline courtroom operations 30 Gov.Civis.Vote AI-powered Digital Public Governance Infrastructure designed to transform public consultations in India by making citizen engagement more inclusive, scalable, and comprehensive This information was submitted by Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Shri Jitin Prasada in Rajya Sabha on 13.03.2026. **** MSZ (Release ID: 2239614) Visitor Counter : 400 Read this release in: Urdu , ही

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