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R. Kumar heads Tamil Nadu’s new ministry for Artificial Intelligence, IT and Digital Services — the second dedicated AI ministry in India after Kerala — with plans for an AI city and AI education from school to university.
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Outlined the proposed AI city — research centres, global capability centres, Centres of Excellence and institutions — and plans for AI education from school through university, aimed also at bringing skilled Tamils abroad back home.
Source: The New Indian Express
Met deep-tech start-ups, researchers and industry at IIT Madras Research Park on research-led entrepreneurship and industry–academia collaboration.
Source: The New Indian Express
Held the first high-level review of the AI agenda: Centres of Excellence in medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, Tamil-language technology and climate sciences, and ‘Arivagam’, a proposed AI city with an AI university, skills centre and semiconductor-testing facilities.
Source: The New Indian Express
Our report ›Sworn in during the second phase of the Cabinet on 21 May 2026 and allocated the new Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Digital Services ministry — the second dedicated AI ministry in India after Kerala.
Source: Govt press release No. 40
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