New Delhi, Oct 15: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday announced three Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence (AI-COE) focused on Health, Agriculture and Sustainable cities.

The CoEs in AI, to be built with a total financial outlay of Rs. 990.00 Crore over the period of FY 2023-24 to FY 2027-28, is aimed to further boost the start-up ecosystem in the country.

The 3 COEs in AI will emerge as temples of global public good!

With the unveiling of AI CoE in healthcare led by @iitdelhi & @aiims_newdelhi, AI CoE in agriculture led by @iitrpr and AI CoE in sustainable cities led by @IITKanpur, we have taken significant strides in… pic.twitter.com/sTZiTQSZI4
— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) October 15, 2024

Speaking on the occasion, Pradhan said, “The three AI-CoEs would emerge as temples of global public good, and also emerge as solution providers of the world.”

“AI-CoEs will create a new generation of job creators and wealth creators and establish new paradigms of global public good,” he added.

These centres will be established in AIIMS Delhi, IIT Ropar and IIT Kanpur. The centre at AIIMS Delhi, along with IIT Delhi, will work in the field of health, the centre at IIT Ropar will work in agriculture and the one at IIT Kanpur will work for a sustainable city.

The three AI CoEs are aimed at realising the vision of "Viksit Bharat," and will be led by top educational institutions, with industry partners and startups. They will conduct interdisciplinary research, develop cutting-edge applications, and create scalable solutions in these three areas, said the Ministry of Education.

The Ministry also noted that the initiative aims to galvanise an effective AI ecosystem and nurture quality human resources in these critical fields.

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