India Advances AI Adoption With Policy and Infrastructure

At the World Economic Forum 'AI for Viksit Bharat' panel in Davos, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Bajaj Finserv's Sanjiv Bajaj, PwC India chair Sanjeev Krishan and investor Nikhil Kamath urged scaling AI through infrastructure, policy and reskilling, citing a planned 200-acre innovation city and the state's AgriStack. They highlighted measurable use cases—30% productivity gains in AI call centres, 300,000 customized ads in 15 days, and 30,000–40,000 loans processed monthly by AI—while warning of valuation hype and urging education reform.