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A major national initiative connecting agriculture, nutrition and public health through scientific collaboration was launched by Union Ministers JP Nadda and Shivraj Singh Chauhan on May 11. The mission focuses on five key areas: biofortified and nutrient-rich crops, integrated farming systems, occupational health for farm workers, agriculture-based NCD prevention, and One Health preparedness.
Highlighting that India is at a defining moment in its innovation journey towards the vision of Viksit Bharat, MeitY organised a national conference on May 12 to launch IP Catalyst – a digital platform bridging publicly funded R&D with industry deployment. India crossed 1,43,729 patent filings in FY 2025–26, with Electronics & IT contributing a 52% rise. The initiative supports startups and MSMEs through IP filing, tech transfer, and lab-to-market acceleration.
The India Meteorological Department launched two AI-driven weather forecasting systems on May 14: India's first AI-enabled monsoon advance forecast and a high-resolution rainfall system for Uttar Pradesh. The monsoon system delivers probabilistic forecasts every Wednesday up to four weeks in advance, supporting farmers across 16 states and over 3,000 sub-districts, while the UP pilot generates 1-km resolution forecasts up to 10 days ahead.
CPO Portal is a digital governance tool that enables real-time monitoring of government schemes and strengthens accountability in last-mile delivery. The portal tracks the work of Central Prabhari Officers posted to aspirational districts, thereby embedding transparency and outcome orientation directly into administration.
PM Modi chaired a Cabinet-level meeting on May 22, exclusively focused on improving ease of living and ease of doing business, placing regulatory and administrative reform at the heart of the Viksit Bharat agenda. The governance environment India builds now will compound over decades, making it one of the most consequential long-term choices the country is currently making.
Released on May 6, the report draws on decade-long data from UDISE+, ASER, and PARAKH, and presents 8 systemic and 5 academic recommendations. These include composite schools, governance reform, AI integration for pedagogy, strengthening ECE, and reforming vocational education. It emerged from a national workshop with 150+ participants, including state secretaries and UNESCO.
DPIIT released operational guidelines on May 23 for the BHAVYA Scheme, a landmark Central Sector Scheme aimed at developing investment-ready, world-class industrial parks. The scheme provides for the development of 100 industrial parks over six years from 2026–27 to 2031–32, with a total financial outlay of approximately ₹33,660 crore. In the first phase, up to 50 parks will be taken up through challenge-based competitive selection.
The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, launched the AIME Academy (AI Academy for Media and Entertainment) on May 29, inaugurated by Sh. Chanchal Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in the presence of Dr. Manish Gupta, Sr Director, Google DeepMind India. The Academy is built on a five-pillar framework of capacity building, research, innovation and incubation, responsible AI policy development, and strategic collaboration. The launch coincided with the graduation ceremony of a 10-week hybrid AI Skills Training Programme conducted in partnership with Google, which trained over 110 newsroom professionals, media educators, and students from more than 100 newsrooms and media colleges across 23 cities and over 10 Indian languages. Participants completed 40+ hours of AI training and produced 170+ AI-powered projects.
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