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

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has emphasized the paramount importance of “embedding AI in education to empower students and support teachers”. He was addressing the opening session of the Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave, an event that precedes the India AI Impact Summit, on Thursday (February 12, 2026).

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Mr. Pradhan also launched Bodhan AI, which has been established as a non-profit organization under the Ministry of Education to build an open-source “Bharat EduAI Stack” to introduce applications of Artificial Intelligence at all levels of education, from kindergarten to research.

Speaking on the first day of the conclave in New Delhi, the Education Minister said he was confident that the two-day event will “pave the way for increasing India’s AI capacity, establishing India’s leadership in AI, building a DPI in education and ensuring AI For All”.

Including by design

The Education Minister said that Indian AI will be “inclusive by design, interoperable by architecture and sovereign by capabilities.” He called on stakeholders to “build scalable, responsible, ethical and India-centric sovereign AI models to transform education and achieve the goal of Viksit Bharat”.

The opening session of the Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave also saw a presentation by IIT Madras Associate Professor Mitesh Khapra, who introduced Bodhan AI developed by IIT Madras’ AI Center of Excellence for Education. Mr Khapra also outlined plans to build the Bharat EduAI Stack as a digital public infrastructure.

Introducing Bodhan AI, IIT Madras Director V Kamakoti said that Bodhan AI would help the government in making education fair, quality, affordable and easily accessible. He noted that interventions such as personalizing the learning experience through AI teachers, using AI to train and assist teachers, and finding ways to use AI to address parents’ concerns about their children’s growth could prove to be important ways to achieve these goals.

Understanding every child

“It can help teachers understand each child… help communicate with parents about skills and potential career paths,” Mr Kamakoti said, adding that there were also several applications for institutional governance, which can collect vast amounts of data points about students and their learning patterns that can help inform policy and provide direction on improving the quality of education.

On Thursday, the conclave also saw IIT Bombay and Columbia University exchanging an MoU to set up a Center for AI for Manufacturing at IIT Bombay, the launch of IIM Lucknow’s AI program, institutional collaborations between the IIM in Jammu and AIT in Bangkok, and the launch of IIM Ranchi’s Teaching with AI initiative.

The conclave will “seek solutions in four priority sectors” over the next two days, a government statement said, adding that these will be AI for school education, AI for higher education, AI for skills and job readiness, and AI research and deep technology.