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India Launches Nationwide AI Skilling Drive to Train 10 Lakh Youth in One Year

Officials cast the push as democratizing AI through shared GPUs with fresh data-centre capacity.

Overview

  • The rollout was announced in Jaipur at a Regional AI Impact Conference feeding into the India AI Impact Summit scheduled in Delhi in February 2026.
  • Under the India AI Mission, the government says 38,000 GPUs are available as a shared “common compute” resource for students, startups and researchers.
  • The minister cited roughly $70 billion in investment flowing into AI and data centres across the country.
  • A large data centre was announced for Jaipur, with a foundation stone-laying ceremony to be held soon.
  • Rajasthan unveiled an AI-ML policy and new portals and signed MoUs with Google, IIT Delhi and NLU Jodhpur, as officials highlighted India’s top-three ranking in Stanford’s AI Index.