India
21%
6/28
AI Gap Index
6/10
Schools
0/8
Workforce
0/6
Governance
0/4
Access
Schools 6/10
D1 AI literacy curriculum exists in schools 2 National AI curriculum mandate covers grades 3-12; binding from 2026-27 academic year
D2 Curriculum is binding law or mandate 2 Compulsory in grades 9-10; the most significant binding national school AI mandate globally
D3 Ethics component included in curriculum 0 No ethics component in the curriculum; critical gap in the world's largest school AI mandate
D4 Teacher training mandated and funded before rollout 1 Teacher training mandated via NISHTHA, the national programme; mandatory for all government school teachers, but NISHTHA has historically faced capacity constraints at scale — not a clean funded rollout before deployment
D5 Dedicated funding attached to the requirement 1 Partially funded; dedicated ₹500 crore (~$60M) allocation for Centre of Excellence in AI for Education under Union Budget 2025-26, but implementation funding incomplete
Workforce 0/8
D6 Employers legally required to train all employees 0
D7 Training must cover ethics and critical evaluation 0
D8 Pre-redundancy training obligation exists 0
D9 Workers have rights when AI used in employment decisions 0
Civil Service & Governance 0/6
D10 Civil servants working with AI must receive training 0
D11 Minimum training standard is defined 0
D12 Enforcement mechanism exists with named authority 0
Public Access 0/4
D13 Free or publicly funded AI literacy resources available 0
D15 Digital infrastructure support for schools and institutions 0
Source research
Index history
March 18, 2026 6/28 Refresh: India AI Impact Summit 2026 (February 17) confirms IIT Madras CoE established and teacher training MoU signed; no score change — existing dims 4 and 5 already reflect these partially
March 17, 2026 6/28 Governance rescore: dim11 corrected to 0 — previous score reflected school curriculum content (a Schools dimension), not civil servant training
March 17, 2026 7/28 Corrected dimension 4: NISHTHA teacher training is mandated, scored 1 not 0 — training exists but capacity constraints prevent a clean 2
March 17, 2026 6/28 Initial scoring from research archive