**Executive Summary**
The IndiaAI Mission, launched in 2024 with a total budget of ₹10,371.92 crore over five years, aims to democratize technology and build a robust AI ecosystem. The mission focuses on seven key pillars including computing capacity, foundation models, and skill development to address India-centric challenges. Key deliverables include the establishment of 58 AI Centres of Excellence (AI-CoEs) across the country and the support of startups for global market expansion.
**Key Points / Main Content**
**The Seven Pillars of IndiaAI Mission**
* **IndiaAI Compute Capacity:** Establishing a high-end, scalable computing ecosystem to provide "Compute-as-a-Service" for startups and researchers.
* **IndiaAI Foundation Models:** Developing native Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) trained on Indian datasets and languages to ensure sovereign generative AI capabilities.
* **AIKosh (Datasets Platform):** Creating a unified data platform to integrate government and non-government datasets for AI development.
* **Application Development Initiative:** Focused on solving India-specific problems in sectors such as agriculture, healthcare, governance, and climate change.
* **IndiaAI FutureSkills:** Increasing the pool of AI professionals (Graduates, Post-graduates, and PhDs) and establishing AI labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
* **IndiaAI Startup Financing:** Providing direct financial assistance to AI-driven startups.
* **Safe & Trusted AI:** Implementing governance frameworks to ensure the responsible and ethical adoption of AI.
**Budgetary Outlay (Total: ₹10,371.92 Cr)**
* **Compute Capacity:** ₹4,563.36 Cr (Largest allocation).
* **Foundation Models:** ₹1,971.37 Cr.
* **Startup Financing:** ₹1,942.50 Cr.
* **FutureSkills:** ₹882.94 Cr.
* **Application Development:** ₹689.05 Cr.
* **Other allocations:** Datasets Platform (₹199.55 Cr), Safe & Trusted AI (₹20.46 Cr), and Overheads (₹102.69 Cr).
**International and Sectoral Initiatives**
* **Global Expansion:** The "IndiaAI Startups Global" program, in collaboration with partners in Paris, has selected 10 Indian startups to expand into the European market.
* **Sectoral Applications:** 30 specific AI applications have been developed for agriculture (e.g., soil testing, regenerative practices), healthcare (e.g., lung health screening, joint pain diagnostics), and climate change.
* **Collaborative Innovation:** Hackathons and challenges organized with the Ministry of Ayush, MSME, and the National Cancer Grid have identified 10 startups for solution scaling.
**Infrastructure and Centres of Excellence (CoEs)**
* **Existing CoEs:** Seven operational centres focusing on IoT (4 locations), Gaming/VFX, AR/VR, and Blockchain.
* **Proposed AI-CoEs:** A scheme has been approved to set up 58 new AI-CoEs in collaboration with States, UTs, and industry partners.
* **Tamil Nadu:** Specific provision has been made for two AI-CoEs to be established in Tamil Nadu.
**Impact Analysis**
**Indian AI Startups**
**Impact**
Startups gain access to critical high-end computing resources, domestic and international financing, and opportunities for global market entry (specifically in Europe).
**Action Required**
Apply for support under the Startup Financing pillar or participate in sector-specific hackathons and global expansion programs.
**Students and Research Professionals**
**Impact**
Increased availability of specialized AI education (PG/PhD levels) and access to "Compute-as-a-Service" and unified datasets via AIKosh for advanced research.
**Action Required**
Engage with "FutureSkills" programs and utilize the established Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
**State and Union Territory Governments**
**Impact**
States will host 58 new AI Centres of Excellence to drive regional innovation and address local technological challenges.
**Action Required**
Coordinate with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) following the recent communication to establish these CoEs.
**Public Sector Departments (Agriculture, Health, Governance)**
**Impact**
Access to 30 newly developed AI applications designed to improve efficiency in critical sectors like disaster management, lung health screening, and multilingual judicial transcriptions.
**Action Required**
Integrate the shortlisted AI solutions (detailed in Annexure-II) into departmental workflows to enhance service delivery.
Key Entities Referenced
IndiaAI Mission: A comprehensive national program launched in 2024 with a ₹10,371 crore outlay to establish a robust AI ecosystem through pillars like compute capacity, foundation models, and startup financing.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY): The primary government ministry responsible for the implementation of the IndiaAI Mission and the establishment of technology-specific Centres of Excellence.
AI-Centres of Excellence (AI-CoE): Proposed research and innovation hubs, with 58 units approved for establishment across various states to foster state-of-the-art AI development and education.
IndiaAI Startups Global: An international initiative launched in collaboration with French partners (Station F and HEC Paris) to support Indian AI startups in expanding into global markets.
IndiaAI Application Development Initiative: A pillar of the IndiaAI Mission focused on developing AI solutions for India-specific challenges in sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and governance.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 6086
TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.04.2026
DEVELOPMENT OF AI ECO SYSTEM
6086. SHRI RAJA A:
Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to
state:
(a) the details of India AI Mission launched in 2024 and the funds outlay for development of
overall Artificial Intelligence (AI) eco system in the country;
(b) the details of initiatives taken for doing research and making innovative efforts in
developing State-of-the-art technology in AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing and Internet
of Things (IoT);
(c) the measures taken for tapping AI vast potential by enhancing efficiency and capabilities
across crucial sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, logistics and others; and
(d) the details of States where AI-Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) is proposed to be established
with a timeline, State-wise particularly in Tamil Nadu?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI JITIN PRASADA)
(a) to (d): India's AI strategy is based on the Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision of democratizing
technology. It aims to address India centric challenges and create opportunities.
IndiaAI Mission:
The IndiaAI Mission was launched in 2024, with a total outlay of Rs. 10,371 Cr, to make AI
accessible to all across India. It establishes a robust and inclusive AI ecosystem aligned with
India's development goals. Seven pillars of IndiaAI mission are as follows:
● IndiaAI Compute Capacity: It focuses on creating a high-end, scalable AI computing
ecosystem to deliver Compute-as-a-Service for India’s rapidly growing AI startups and
research community.
● IndiaAI Foundation Models: To develop India’s own Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)
trained on Indian datasets and languages. This is to ensure sovereign capability and global
competitiveness in generative AI.
● AIKosh: To provide AI models and datasets for AI development. AIKosh is a unified data
platform integrating datasets from government and non-government sources.● IndiaAI Application Development Initiative: This pillar aims to develop AI applications
for India specific challenges in sectors such as climate change and disaster management,
healthcare, agriculture, governance, and assistive technologies for learning disabilities.
● IndiaAI FutureSkills: To develop AI skilled professionals in India by increasing the
number of graduates, post-graduate and PhDs in AI domain. It also envisions setting up Data
and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India.
● IndiaAI Startup Financing: To provide financial assistance to AI start-ups.
● Safe & Trusted AI: To balance innovation with strong governance frameworks to ensure
responsible AI adoption.
The implementation of ‘IndiaAI Mission’ is with a total outlay of Rs. 10,371.92 Cr for a period
of 5 years. The detailed allocation of budgetary outlay among its seven key pillars is as follows:
# Components Total Allocation
(₹ Cr)
1 IndiaAI Compute Capacity
4563.36
2 IndiaAI Foundation Models
1971.37
3 IndiaAI Datasets Platform
199.55
4 IndiaAI Application Development Initiative
689.05
5 IndiaAI FutureSkills
882.94
6 IndiaAI Startup Financing
1942.5
7 Safe & Trusted AI
20.46
8 IndiaAI Overheads and Contingency @1% 102.69
Total
10,371.92
IndiaAI Startups Global: 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. Details are at Annexure-I.
It supports Indian AI startups in accessing global innovation ecosystems and expanding into
international markets. The startups are developing innovative solutions across sectors such as
governance, smart cities, document intelligence and enterprise automation.
Further, under the IndiaAI Mission, thirty (30) applications have been 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, Ministryof 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.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) through Emerging Technology
Division has established 7 Nos Centres of Excellence in diverse emerging technology domain
including Gaming/ VFX, AR/VR, Blockchain, IoT (4 Nos) at different geographical locations.
Details of these CoEs are placed at Annexure-III.
Under the startup financing pillar of the IndiaAI Mission, a scheme for setting up of 58 AI-
CoEs has been approved in collaboration with MeitY, State/ UTs and industry partners
including a provision for 2 AI-CoEs in Tamil Nadu. Towards this, a communication in this
regard has been forwarded to States/ UTs for establishment of AI-CoEs in respective States/
UTs.
*******Annexure I
List of 10 Startups for the IndiaAI Startups Global Program – Paris
Sr. No. Startup Name Area of Work
1 PrivaSapien Technologies Responsible AI with privacy engineering and
privacy-enhancing technologies
2 CoRover.ai Conversational Gen AI platform for contextual,
domain-specific human-like responses
3 Staqu Technologies (Jarvis) AI-powered audio-video analytics for
surveillance, security, and governance
4 SatSure Analytics Earth Observation using satellite imagery and
AI for decision intelligence
5 Storyvord AI-based video content generation from
product URLs and brand context
6 VolarAlta Drone-based AI solutions for industrial
inspections
7 Smartail AI-powered edtech platform for immersive
learning and real-time assessment
8 Secure Blink AI-driven cybersecurity with proactive
DevSecOps posture management
9 NeuroPixel.AI AI-enabled ultra-fast image editing for fashion
and e-commerce
10 Voicing AI Agentic AI platform for enterprise-grade
intelligent voice agents
Annexure-II
Details of shortlisted AI solution under IndiaAI Application Development Initiative
Sl. Name of the Solution Solution Description Theme
No.
1 Promoting regenerative In-house developed MRV Agriculture
agriculture practices for a (Measurement, Reporting, and
sustainable future using AI Verification) technology designed to
ensure the integrity and quality of
generated carbon credits.
2 Krishi Sah‘AI’yak - AI-powered conversational co-pilot to Agriculture
Farming Co-pilot provide personalized advisory to
farmers in Indic languages3 Kadalcompass - We 5G-enabled device that transforms Agriculture
Amplify the voice of water fishing practices using AI, IoUT, and
using Hydro- advanced communication technologies
AI,Underwater com,IoUT
with Sensor Network
4 KissanCopilot Multilingual Powered by Dhenu's vertical LLM for Agriculture
Multimodal personalized agriculture, provides personalized
AI Assistant for small agricultural advisory services to
holder farmers smallholder farmers.
5 Rapid, chemical-free soil End-to-end soil testing approach Agriculture
testing solution using NIR leverages an offline app, AI-powered
Spectroscopy & AI/ML spectral device, and ML models to
models 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 AI-driven solution that optimizes Agriculture
Logistics and Mortality aquaculture operations
Reduction in Aquaculture
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: Integrates AI-based climate forecasting Climate
Integrating AI-based with health data to develop a targeted
Advanced Forecasting for risk classification system for heat-
Extreme Heat Events health impacts
10 Multi-Hazard hazard management system to predict Climate
Susceptibility Mapping Landslides, Debris Flows and Flash
Floods
11 DeepFlood: Rapid flood Advanced flood inundation mapping Climate
inundation mapping using tool using SAR data and deep learning
Vision Transformers and models for real-time, automated flood
Satellite Data detection
12 Moskeet: Climate impact AI-powered platform integrates real- Climate
on mosquito-borne time climate data with mosquito
diseases tracking to predict and prevent disease
outbreaks.
13 End to End AI Cloud AI cloud platform for radiology Healthcare
Platform for Radiology diagnosis, integrating innovative
Diagnosis technologies such as CV, GenAI, NLP,
Dicom, mobile, and cloud computing14 NIDAAN (iNtegrated lung qXR, an advanced AI tool for Healthcare
health screening & interpreting chest X-rays (CXR),
tuberculosIs Detection detects & localizes 30+ findings.
through Ai At National
scale)
15 Impactful AI solution, early detection of vision threatening Healthcare
preventing preventable retinal abnormalities
blindness, for socio-
economic transformation.
16 AI Powered Wearable AI Enabled Hardware Platform for Healthcare
Technology for Detection Joint Pain Diagnostics and
& Diagnosis of Rehabilitation Segments of Healthcare
Musculoskeletal Joint
Health Pain.
17 VoxelBox Neuro-informatics platform that allows Healthcare
to map the functional maps /
connectomics of the human brain
18 Development of Ocellux: Portable, affordable and highly Healthcare
An AI-Based Solution for accessible retina imaging device
Enhanced Early Diabetic powered by AI for early detection of
Eye Screening in INDIA. eye diseases like Diabetic Retinopathy,
AMD & Glaucoma
19 Revolutionizing healthcare AI-powered personal doctor available Healthcare
using 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 MafPro handheld detector provides a Healthcare
device platform for cancer radiation-free, non-invasive, safe and
staging, localization, and cost-effective solution that can reliably
margins. detect and adequately evaluate
metastases in lymph nodes using
AI/ML based algorithms
21 Readabled (Online web-based application designed to help Learning
Dyslexia Training) children with dyslexia improve disabilities
phonetic 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 Digital, game-based screening tool Learning
based screening tool for designed to identify children aged 3 to disabilities
autism and related 6 who may be at risk for autism or
disorders. related developmental conditions24 Jiveesha AI-powered diagnostic platform for Learning
early detection of SLDs disabilities
25 Adaptive Learning and Advanced AI techniques to detect Learning
Detection 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 AI-powered platform provides real- Governance
Courts time 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
Annexure-III
Details of the Centres of Excellence operational in Emerging Technologies
Sr. No. Name of the CoEs Partnership
1 Gaming, VFX, Computer Vision & AI Govt. of Telangana, IIT Hyderabad, IIIT
at Hyderabad Hyderabad, Qualcomm, Hyderabad gaming
associations such as Hyderabad Software
Enterprises Association (HYSEA) and
Telangana VFX, Animation and Gaming
Association (TVAGA)
2 Virtual Augmented Reality (VAR) Govt. of Odisha, Smt. Baghchi as industry
CoE at Bhubaneswar partner, IIT Bhubaneswar3 Blockchain CoE at Gurugram Govt. of Haryana, IBM and PadUp
Ventures
4 Centre of Excellence – IoT, NASSCOM
Gurugram, Haryana
5 Centre of Excellence – IoT, NASSCOM
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
6 Centre of Excellence – IoT, NASSCOM
Bengaluru, Karnataka
7 Centre of Excellence – IoT, NASSCOM
Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
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