Digital India Nears 11 Years: AI, Semiconductors and Digital Public Infrastructure
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📌 Summary:
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Digital India (launched 1 July 2015) nears 11 years; mobile data cost fell from ₹269/GB to ₹8–10/GB (among the cheapest globally) and internet connections grew ~4x
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Programme now anchored in Artificial Intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing as the twin pillars for Viksit Bharat 2047
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IndiaAI Mission (outlay ₹10,372 crore): shared compute facility with 45,000+ GPUs; 15 LLMs/SLMs across speech, text and vision; AI Kosh hosts 12,519 datasets, 307 models, 20 toolkits
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27 Data & AI Labs in Tier II/III cities; 684 fellowships; 8.4 million learners via YUVA AI; 18 Centres of Excellence; 20 AI startups supported
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AI Governance Guidelines (Nov 2025) for safe, inclusive, trustworthy AI; India AI Impact Summit 2026 Declaration adopted by 92 countries/organisations
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Semiconductors: ₹1.64 lakh crore approved across 12 projects; electronics now India's third-largest export category
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Startup employment reached 23.36 lakh; nearly half of startups feature at least one woman director/partner
🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS3 Science & Technology — government IT/AI/semiconductor initiatives and Digital Public Infrastructure as a governance and growth enabler
📝 Prelims Facts:
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Digital India launched on 1 July 2015
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IndiaAI Mission outlay: ₹10,372 crore; shared compute facility 45,000+ GPUs; AI Kosh platform
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Semiconductor investment ₹1.64 lakh crore across 12 projects; electronics = 3rd-largest export category
🔑 Key Term: Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) — shared, interoperable digital systems (identity, payments, data exchange) enabling public and private service delivery at population scale
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