Overview

• NITI Aayog released the Frontier Tech Hub study ‘AI for Inclusive Societal Development’ with Deloitte, centering on informal workers who contribute nearly half of GDP.
• The report proposes Mission Digital ShramSetu to make AI and other frontier technologies accessible, affordable, and impactful for workers outside formal systems.
• A federated trust and credentialing ecosystem is recommended, with verifiable work and skill records issued by training providers, platforms, employers, and government bodies.
• The roadmap calls for extending IndiaStack with open-source trust and verifiability layers, plus incentives such as grants, tax breaks, sandboxes, R&D support, and procurement pathways.
• Governance would rest with a proposed apex body chaired by the Prime Minister, while the study warns incomes could stagnate near $6,000 by 2047 versus a $14,500 benchmark and notes recommendations await formal adoption.