India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is fast-tracking AI curation units across 50 ministries. These units will sort through scattered government data to pull out useful sets for AI models.
The Push Forward
The program started almost two years ago but hit roadblocks. Some ministries pushed back because they already had their own data systems in place. Now, officials say the last 20 units will go live in the coming months, according to ETTelecom and ETEnterpriseai.
The units feed data into the IndiaAI Datasets Platform, called AIKosh. They target non-personal info like:
- Health statistics
- Agricultural surveys
- Geospatial maps
- Logistics records
- Demographics
- Environmental data
A MeitY official told ET: “Finding and filtering these often fragmented data and making them available for AI modelling that can provide unique applications has been a key aim.”
This move clears a hurdle for India’s AI data prep, getting ministries on the same page faster.
