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

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan emphasized the great importance of “embedding AI in education to empower students and support teachers.” He was speaking at the opening session of the Bharat Bodhan Artificial Intelligence Conclave on Thursday, February 12, 2026, an event held ahead of the India AI Impact Summit.

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

Speaking on the first day of the Convocation in New Delhi, the Education Minister said he was confident that the two-day event would “pave the way to enhance India’s AI capacity, establish India’s leadership in AI, create a DPI in education and deliver AI for All.”

Inclusive by design

India’s AI will be “inclusive in design, interoperable in architecture and sovereign in talent”, the Education Minister said. He called on stakeholders to create “scalable, responsible, ethical and India-centric sovereign AI models to transform education and realize the ambition of Viksit Bharat.”

The opening session of the Bharat Bodhan AI Convocation also witnessed a presentation by IIT Madras Associate Professor Mitesh Khapra, who introduced Bodhan AI developed by the IIT Madras Center of Educational Excellence. 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 will help the government in making education equitable, high-quality, affordable and easily accessible. Interventions such as personalizing the learning experience through AI tutors, using AI to train and assist teachers, and finding ways to leverage AI to address parents’ concerns about their children’s growth could emerge as important ways to achieve these goals, he noted.

Understanding every child

“It can help teachers understand each child… help them communicate with parents about skills and potential career paths,” Mr. Kamakoti said, adding that there are also various applications for institutional management where vast amounts of data points can be collected about students and their learning patterns, which can help inform policies and provide direction in improving the quality of education.

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

The Conclave will “engage in solutions across four priority verticals” over the next two days, a government statement said, adding that these will be Artificial Intelligence for School Education, Artificial Intelligence for Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence for Skills Development and Workforce Readiness, and AI Research and Deep Technology.