AI INITIATIVES BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT: JOURNEY TOWARDS BECOMING G

India has realized the importance of AI for its economic growth and is moving towards its way to become the Global leader in the new emerging technologies of AI. In June 2020, India launched an AI portal “indiaai.in” where Government, startups, academic learners can come together and synchronize their effort for the growth of AI in India. The government has also framed an architecture to develop a cloud computing infrastructure to support facilities for AI named as AIRAWAT. Both the initiatives are great efforts of Indian Government towards establishing India as an AI enabled country in the world. With the latest AI initiatives being taken by the Indian government, now India has the biggest opportunity to fully reap the benefits of AI as a problem solver for its Healthcare, industry, education, infrastructure, public dealing, policy and regulation making, transportation and technology development sectors. This research paper discuss the latest trends in AI, role of AI Chatbots, which come as helping tool for Public Service Delivery in different areas, AI Startups in India, National AI Strategy, AI Portal of India, AIRAWAT-AI Cloud Infrastructure , AI initiatives by Central and State Government of India. “Ethics in AI” is also being discussed in this paper as it is a major issue of concern since the technology is going to be utilized in every field and it is on the way to be implemented across the world.