India's Cabinet Secretariat has identified 762 government problem statements for possible AI solutions across 62 ministries and departments, but the government has set no date for turning the list into deployed projects.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a July 29, 2026, response to the Lok Sabha that the Secretariat had assembled the list after the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, held Feb. 16-21. The statements touch on public administration, service delivery, operating efficiency and needs specific to different sectors. The list describes areas for potential intervention; it does not count AI systems already in service.
A separate government factsheet reported that IndiaAI initiatives had developed 62 prototypes and put 20 AI solutions into use at public institutions as of August 2026. It did not match those outputs to the Cabinet Secretariat's 762 entries.
Existing projects illustrate the range of government AI use. The Ministry of Railways said an acoustic-sensing system for detecting elephants and other wildlife had been operating across 141 route kilometres on the Northeast Frontier Railway as of Feb. 6, 2026. Tenders for a further 981 route kilometres had been awarded.
For grievance services, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances introduced Samadhan Didi on May 30, 2026. The voice chatbot is designed to identify the ministry and department relevant to a complaint, and the launch announcement said it can interact in all 22 languages named in the Constitution's Eighth Schedule.
The Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission separately on March 7, 2024, with ₹10,371.92 crore allocated over five years. Its work includes developing applications, expanding computing resources and datasets, supporting startups and advancing safe and trusted AI.
The ministry's July response also cited the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, 13 selected responsible-AI projects and India AI Governance Guidelines issued Nov. 5, 2025, as measures tied to privacy, fairness, transparency and accountability.
At the February summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Any AI model that succeeds in India can be deployed globally.” The July response provided no expected date for selecting projects or putting them into service.
