The Finance Minister proposed supporting the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies in setting up AVGC Content Creator Labs in 15,000 secondary schools and 500 colleges.
Study estimates AI could unlock massive value across five foundational sectors, arguing India’s edge lies in disciplined, large-scale deployment rather than frontier model development.
India must address energy availability, infrastructure gaps and regulatory bottlenecks to scale its data centre ecosystem, the Economic Survey 2025–26 warns.
The network was used by hundreds of cybercrime and espionage groups to hide malicious activity behind consumer internet connections.
Acknowledging that digital access cannot be fully restricted, the report suggested creating moderated, online safe spaces hosted by schools to offer peer support.
