Just as how India’s IT companies became key providers of software products across the world, can the country now also become the artificial intelligence (AI) application use case capital of the world?, asked Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), here on Wednesday.
The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) has been driving the software growth story of India and the very organisation should be able to kick start the AI revolution in India, he said, while speaking at a pre-event (of India AI Impact Summit scheduled in February 2026) meeting on the sidelines of the Bangalore Technology Summit.
Whether in the United States, Europe, or in the Middle East, more and more investments are happening in building high-end data centers powered by renewable energy with high-end AI compute that can help companies which are training AI models or building AI applications around those AI factories, he observed.
“The STPI has 65 centres across the country, can they be leveraged to build the AI factories for tomorrow and can we think of India as an AI garage of the world?” he pointed a question to Arvind Kumar, the Director General, STPI, who was also speaking at the event.
According to Mr. Singh, impact of AI on people primarily relates to how artificial intelligence will impact jobs, how it will impact employment, how it will lead to a need for reskilling and upskilling our tech workforce, our developers and coders so that we are not adversely impacted with the advent of AI.
Speaking about the broad impact of AI, he said, “We have seen AI-based applications which can help predict floods and any extreme climate events to help people and farmers.”
AI could offer people economic and social empowerment, argued Mr. Singh. “Farmers can get agri-based advisories in their mother tongue. They can get suggestions with regard to how much input you should use as water, how much fertilizers they should use, what kind of pesticide they should use, where they should sell their product.”
Similarly, MSMEs can have the optimal product mix, what they should produce, at what cost they should produce, where they should source their raw materials, at what price they should sell, he added.
Published – November 19, 2025 11:39 pm IST
