AI tool adoption gets a government boost

The Indian government backend technology arm is seeing a rush of requests from departments and agencies to create AI-based software, and integrating AI functionalities into existing public facing digital systems, officials at The National Informatics Centre (NIC) told ET.

From a search analytics tool made for judges to instantly flip through all Supreme Court rulings from 1950 onwards, to AI tools that scour district databases to effectively find eligible beneficiaries of direct benefit transfer schemes, the ministry of electronics and information…