India, Feb. 5 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
S.No.
Mission Activity
Outcome
Total Number
1.
Technology Development
Technologies/Technology products (TRL >7)
297
Technologies commercialised
112
2.
Human Resource Development
Fellowships granted
2371
Training Programs conducted
441
Participants in Training Programs
37035
3.
Entrepreneurship Development
Start-ups supported
407
4.
International Collaborations
Collaborations with Foreign Institutions
41
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is implementing the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) with a total outlay of Rs.3,660 crore for the period 2018-2027, aimed at strengthening India's capabilities in cutting-edge cyber-physical technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT)&Internet of Everything(IoE), Data analytics, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Cybersecurity, Quantum Technologies, etc.
The Mission is being implemented with all the TIHs undertaking activities under the following four (04) categories:
Key progress and outcomes achieved under NM-ICPS during 2025 include:
Few of the technologies developed under NM-ICPS during 2025 are as follows:
The scope of BharatGen is to develop a range of sovereign foundational AI models tailored towards Indian languages, culture and contexts. BharatGen models will support scheduled 22 Indian languages. It spans multiple modalities, including text (via Large Language Models), speech (Text-to-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition), and vision-language systems.
The status of BharatGen with respect to the development and release of models and applications for Indian languages is as follows:
i. Text models: Param is a 7 billion parameter, multilingual large language model designed to understand and generate text across English, Hindi, and 14 additional Indian languages.
ii. Speech models:
iii. Vision Models: Patram, India's first Vision-Language Model for Documents, is a 7 billion parameter model, designed to seamlessly integrate visual perception with linguistic understanding, currently supporting the English language.
BharatGen has released domain specific fine-tuned models for Ayurveda (Ayur Param), Indian agriculture (Agri Param), Indian legal domain (Legal Param) and Indian finance domain (Finance Param). In addition, all BharatGen models (text, speech and vision) are useful for applications across healthcare, agriculture, education, governance and other domains.
The NM-ICPS envisages a roadmap focused on strengthening industry and government partnerships, scaling validated technologies based on cyber-physical systems (CPS), and enhancing sustained societal impact. The four (04) TTRPs established under NM-ICPS have a mandate to significantly scale translational research, commercialization and industry engagement for enhancing societal impact in sectors like healthcare, transport, smart manufacturing, energy, environmental, agriculture and security. In addition, enhanced funding support has been provided to three (03) TIHs at IIT Madras, IIT Hyderabad, and IIT Bombay for supporting translational research. With the TTRPs and the TIHs developing technologies across various CPS domains and supporting entrepreneurship development & skill development, the mission emphasizes on transitioning successful pilot deployments into scalable societal solutions.
Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.
