India launches Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave-2026

Exam-focused facts from the 14 February 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan launched the two-day Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave-2026 in New Delhi.
The conclave focuses on four verticals: AI for school education, AI for higher education, AI for skilling and workforce readiness, and AI research and deep technology.
It aims to integrate AI in education at scale and develop the ‘Bharat EduAI Stack’ by bringing together academia, industry, policymakers, start-ups, innovators, scientific leadership and the skilling ecosystem.
Pradhan stated that India’s AI will be inclusive by design, interoperable by architecture and sovereign by capability.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow introduced a series of new Artificial Intelligence programmes during the event.
An MoU was exchanged between Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and Columbia University to establish a Centre of AI for manufacturing at IIT Bombay.
On 11 February, Pradhan chaired a roundtable with founders of 10 new-age Indian start-ups using AI in education at IIT Delhi to discuss alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.