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The Tamil Nadu authorities has asked the Union authorities to acceptable up a centre of excellence for Artificial Intelligence (AI) successful Tamil Nadu, said Minister for Information Technology Palanivel Thiaga Rajan successful Coimbatore connected Friday (October 10, 2025).
Speaking astatine the Global Startup Summit, helium said the State authorities wants to follow AI to amended the functioning of the government, and it started talking to antithetic departments. It past identified a acceptable of services that tin beryllium automated utilizing AI.
“We privation to person an AI unfastened information level that we volition springiness to startups that tin travel up with models,” helium said. The Information Technology Department has travel retired with 4 tools and is moving connected 26 more, and determination are immoderate models that volition beryllium utilized with the existing tools. For instance, done e-parvai app, AI is utilized to surface patients for cataract. Similarly, AI is utilized successful the Uzhavan app to validate harvest information entry.
The Department plans to merchandise WhatsApp-based governance to supplement the services of the e-seva centres, and yet it volition go chatbot-based.
The State authorities has a small much than 500 subsidy schemes and determination is bully information for 370 of these. “We privation to usage bully information and amended attack and amended models and automation. When we commencement doing these, the adjacent measurement is to amended national and authorities interface,” helium said, speaking astir however the IT Department is utilizing AI to supply amended services to the public.
