By next academic year, government wants AI to become part of teaching-learning at all levels of education

The Ministry of Education is working with the goal of ensuring that Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools become a part of teaching and learning in one way or another from the kindergarten to the research levels by the next academic year, officials said on Wednesday (December 11, 2026).

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met with leaders of 10 leading start-ups using AI in the ed-tech sector at a roundtable discussion in IIT Delhi, ahead of the government’s Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave starting on Thursday (December 12).

Officials told presspersons on Wednesday (December 11) that the government will be launching Bodhan AI during the conclave, which is expected to lead to a digital public infrastructure (DPI) for the education sector as a whole. One official explained that this initiative is expected to work as a platform that can provide upcoming start-ups in this sector with reliable application programming interfaces (APIs) that they can use to build models and deliver AI-led applications to end users like teachers and students.

Mr. Pradhan said that while the government was already working to introduce AI knowledge in curricula, the focus now will be on delivering AI-assisted applications, pushing towards “AI-sovereignty”. Applications include using the tool for teacher capacity building programmes, for preparing personalised lesson plans based on content already produced by institutions like the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)and State CERTs.