The Centre on October 15, 2024 announced setting up of three centres of excellence (CoE) in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, agriculture and sustainable cities.
- The CoE in healthcare will be led by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi.
- The IIT in Ropar, Punjab will lead the CoE in agriculture.
- IIT Kanpur has been given the charge of developing CoE in sustainable cities.
- The CoEs will function with industries and start-ups.
- The AI-CoEs were going to be solution providers and would create a new generation of employment providers and wealth creators.
- The Union Budget of 2023-24 had proposed the setting up of AI-CoEs with a financial outlay of ₹990 crore over the period of 2023-24 to 2027-28.
- To oversee its implementation, an industry-heavy apex committee had also been constituted, co-chaired by Sridhar Vembu.
