India’s Bodhan AI aims to transform every aspect of education, with personal tutors and teacher aids

The Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has stressed the large value of “embedding AI successful education to empower students and enactment teachers”. He was addressing the inaugural league of the Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave connected Thursday (February 12, 2026), an lawsuit that precedes the India AI Impact Summit.

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Mr. Pradhan besides launched Bodhan AI, which has been established arsenic a non-profit organisation nether the Education Ministry to physique an open-source “Bharat EduAI Stack” to introduce Artificial Intelligence applications crossed each levels of education, from kindergarten to research.

Speaking connected the archetypal time of the Conclave successful New Delhi, the Education Minister said helium was assured that the two-day lawsuit “will pave the mode for enhancing India’s AI capacity, establishing India’s enactment successful AI, gathering a DPI successful education, and ensuring AI For All”.

Inclusive by design

The Education Minister said that India’s AI volition beryllium “inclusive by design, interoperable by architecture, and sovereign by capability”. He called connected stakeholders to physique “scalable, responsible, ethical and India-centric sovereign AI models to alteration acquisition and realise the extremity of Viksit Bharat”.

The inaugural league of the Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave besides saw a presumption by IIT Madras Associate Professor Mitesh Khapra, who introduced Bodhan AI, developed by the AI Centre of Excellence for Education astatine IIT Madras. Mr. Khapra besides outlined the plans to physique the Bharat EduAI Stack arsenic a integer nationalist infrastructure.

Introducing Bodhan AI, IIT Madras Director V Kamakoti said that Bodhan AI would assistance the authorities successful making acquisition equitable, of precocious quality, affordable, and easy accessible. He noted that interventions similar personalising the learning acquisition via AI tutors, utilizing AI to bid and assistance teachers, and uncovering ways of harnessing AI to code parental concerns astir their children’s maturation could look arsenic important ways of achieving these goals.

Understanding each child

“It tin assistance teachers successful knowing each child... assistance pass with parents astir skills and imaginable vocation pathways,” Mr. Kamakoti said, adding that determination were besides respective applications for organization administration, done which immense amounts of information points tin beryllium collected astir students and their learning patterns that tin assistance pass policies and supply absorption connected improving the prime of education.

On Thursday, the Conclave besides saw IIT Bombay and Columbia University speech an MoU to acceptable up a Centre of AI for manufacturing astatine IIT Bombay, the motorboat of IIM Lucknow’s AI programme, organization collaborations betwixt the IIM successful Jammu and AIT successful Bangkok, and the motorboat of IIM Ranchi’s Teaching with AI initiative.

The Conclave, implicit the adjacent 2 days, volition “engage solutions crossed 4 precedence verticals”, a authorities connection said, adding that these volition beryllium AI for School Education, AI for Higher Education, AI for Skilling and Workforce Readiness, and AI Research and Deep Technology.