AADHAAR AI SOLUTIONS
India is addressing Wall Street’s favourite ‘elephant’ in the room to its own advantage
The Indian government has identified 762 potential applications of artificial intelligence across 62 ministries and departments, spanning farming, railway safety, tax compliance, public grievances, customs and healthcare. While some tools are already in use, others remain in pilot or development stages.
Why sovereign AI is critical to India’s next growth leap?
India has already created considerable momentum. The priority now is to connect government initiatives, industry investments, academic research and startup innovation into a coherent ecosystem.
How Satellite Imagery and AI can enable targeted solutions for Indian farmers
Terrastack has integrated land records, farm-level satellite data, crop activity, climate signals, market data, and more for over 140 million hectares of farmland in India using Google’s ALU and AMED APIs. Such innovation can unlock transformative impact across India's agri value chain, enabling faster and more accurate decisions that benefit farmers in India
Nandan Nilekani, NEET reform panel head, wants to end ‘question papers’: Infosys co-founder has an unusual plan to prevent paper leaks
Nandan Nilekani's Anti-Neet Paper Leak Plan: Nandan Nilekani has proposed generating NEET question papers at the last minute using AI and a large question bank to reduce paper leak risks. The Infosys co-founder also wants India to expand computer-based testing facilities as part of wider examination reforms.
Global Fintech Fest 2026: DFS Secretary Sanjay Lohiya unveils UPI credit for KCC, MUDRA borrowers
DFS Secretary Sanjay Lohiya at Global Fintech Fest 2026 unveiled a facility allowing eligible Kisan Credit Card and PM MUDRA Yojana borrowers to use sanctioned credit limits for merchant payments through UPI. The move could widen digital access to formal credit for farmers and small businesses, with more banks expected to join.
Mount a Bid to Fix Gaspirations: India’s educated unemployed emerge as a new electoral force
India's educated youth face frustration as job opportunities lag behind rising aspirations. This growing cohort feels upward mobility is blocked despite educational achievements. Politicians may offer unemployment doles as a quick electoral fix for this group. Cash transfers to unemployed youth are already a trend in several Indian states. Future elections will focus on delivering jobs that match these increasing expectations.
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TCS and five other firms empanelled to build & run AI for govt departments
The Centre has empanelled six partner firms, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), to develop and deploy AI solutions across government departments. More than 80 companies had submitted bids for the request for empanelment (RFE), which closed last week, with firms such as KPMG, Deloitte, PwC, EY, Fractal Analytics, Gnani AI and Jio Haptik missing the final shortlist on February 27.
AI impact on IT services; Seed-strapping gains traction
Happy Wednesday! Agentic AI is disrupting the IT services sector’s business model. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Economic Survey proposes ‘AI-OS’ platform to make AI a public good
The move is expected to address fragmentation in data availability, quality, standardisation and interoperability, which has so far limited the scalability of domestic AI innovation.
IT-ITeS should explore building sectoral AI based tech which will create new jobs: IT Secretary
While acknowledging a gap in large model development, IT secretary S Krishnan said the focus is on AI adoption for economic impact. Digital public infrastructure is also highlighted as a tool for global influence and technological diplomacy.
Aadhaar face authentication hits all-time high of 19.36 cr transactions in July
Aadhaar face authentication reached a record high of 19.36 crore transactions in July 2025, marking substantial growth compared to the previous year. This surge reflects its increasing adoption across various sectors, including government, finance, and telecom. The technology is streamlining service delivery and enhancing convenience for beneficiaries, with significant integration in social assistance programs and attendance systems.
Nearly half of MSMEs polled prefer UPI for business transactions, says report
According to the MSME Digital Index Report by PayNearby, digital payments continue to gain strong acceptance among MSMEs, with UPI emerging as the most preferred mode of transaction at 48%, followed by Aadhaar-enabled banking at 39%.
Aadhaar authentication transactions surge 7.8 pc to 229.33 cr in June
Unique Identification Authority of India reports a significant rise in Aadhaar usage. Authentication transactions reached 229.33 crore in June 2025. This reflects a 7.8% increase compared to last year. Cumulative transactions have surpassed 15,452 crore since inception. E-KYC transactions exceeded 39.47 crore during the month. Face authentication also saw substantial growth, with 15.87 crore transactions recorded.
Aadhaar authentications cross 2 billion in June
In June, Aadhaar holders completed over 2.29 billion authentication transactions, a 7.8% rise year-on-year, pushing the total past 154 billion. Face authentication, powered by in-house AI/ML tools, hit a record 158.7 million. Widely adopted across sectors, Aadhaar e-KYC also saw 394.7 million transactions, enhancing service delivery and business efficiency.
India's AI market to triple to $17 billion by 2027: Report
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in a report titled "India's AI Leap: BCG Perspective on Emerging Challengers", said India has a thriving AI ecosystem with over 600,000 AI professionals, 700 million internet users, and a surge of AI startups with over 2000 launched in the past three years.
'Gold standard': Bill Gates lauds Aadhaar, UPI
Bill Gates praised India at the Times Now Summit in New Delhi for its digital innovations like Aadhaar and UPI, calling them the gold standard for digital public infrastructure. He highlighted India's AI-powered climate-smart agriculture and role in the global AI ecosystem. Gates emphasized that India's leadership and innovation are crucial for addressing global challenges.
UIDAI partners with Sarvam AI to deploy GenAI solution for Aadhaar services
As part of the agreement, Sarvam AI will deploy its voice-based interaction platform for resident-centric use cases, effective immediately. The engagement is valid for one year, with a provision for extension by another year. The platform will initially support 10 Indian languages: Hindi, English, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi and Malayalam. More languages will be added over the coming months.
Make AI in India, work for India is the vision as India embarks on AI revolution: Jitin Prasada
Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, also said that internet today is not merely a tool for connectivity, but a backbone of economies, societies, and individual aspirations. He added that India's transformative journey over the last decade, marked by rapid digitalisation and digital successes like UPI, Aadhaar, and Digital India, serves as a model for other nations.
India to help ASEAN nations explore linking payment systems
India will share its digital public infrastructure expertise, such as Aadhaar and UPI, with ASEAN nations to address challenges in education, healthcare, agriculture, and climate change. The India-ASEAN Summit reaffirmed commitments to peace, maritime security, and digital solutions, emphasizing collaboration in fintech and AI technology development.
Puja Khedkar controversy fallout: UPSC to perform Aadhaar-based authentication for candidates' verifications
The Centre has permitted the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to conduct Aadhaar-based identity verification for candidates on a voluntary basis during registration and examinations. This decision follows recent incidents of fraudulent activities, including the cancellation of IAS officer Puja Khedkar's candidature for misusing eligibility criteria and quotas.
India to become AI use case capital of the world: Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani's People+ai introduces 'Adbhut India' and OCC project, emphasizing frugal AI innovation in India. The initiatives aim to leverage the country's population and digital infrastructure for impactful AI solutions, fostering healthy competition.
India a key growth engine: cloud tech company Avaya CEO Alan Masarek
Avaya announced that it is witnessing an accelerated momentum for its solutions in India, particularly among enterprises looking to infuse artificial intelligence into customer experience.
CAMS launches AI-embedded KYC to onboard customers instantly
With the new CAMSKRA solution, businesses can verify the identity of their new customers in a seamless, frictionless process without breaking the onboarding journey and completing the KYC registration in under ten minutes.
We're building AI for governance, commercial use, deep capabilities: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Monday broadly outlined the IndiaAI programme and how it will help the country build world-class platforms, solutions and tools to not only solve local issues but also help the world.
Boost for fintech innovation: Govt to expand scope of Digilocker, set up AI centers, streamline KYC, says FM
Sitharaman said a one-stop solution would be introduced for reconciliation and updating of identity and address of individuals maintained by various government agencies, regulators and regulated entities will be established using DigiLocker and Aadhaar.
Airtel Payments Bank launches face authentication for savings bank accounts
The authentication is processed using a new app from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). As a result, the business correspondents at the banking points will only need a smartphone to open a bank account for customers.
Intellect Design Arena unveils AI-powered Aadhaar processing solution
Intellect Design Arena’s Magic Aadhaar will hyper-digitise the end-to-end process of automatic classification, extraction and masking of Aadhaar numbers for complete compliance and security.
Validate ID of bank loan seekers via UIDAI, Income tax dept: Economic Survey
The Economic Survey 2019-20 suggests the creation of GSTN like entity called PSB Network, use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to prevent the banking frauds. PSBN can use the I-T dept, UIDAI to validate the identity of the customer.
Cos likely to extensively use AI to deal with cyberattacks, says study
The study titled 'Cyber Security India Market: What lies beneath' also notes that the regulatory landscape for privacy and data protection is expected to reach a tipping point in 2020, forcing Indian organisations to comply with not only global regulations but also with the proposed law on personal data protection, the Aadhaar Act.
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