CHENNAI / DELHI : In a landmark step toward transforming school education in India, Bodhan AI announced the launch of its AI Literacy for Teachers, a national-scale program aimed at training over 1 million teachers in Artificial Intelligence for everyday teaching by 2027.
The announcement was made by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Government of India, at the IIT Madras Technology Summit hosted at Bharat Mandapam on 5th May 2026. Bodhan AI is a Centre of Excellence in AI for Education incubated at IIT Madras.
The initiative is designed to reimagine how teaching is delivered in classrooms, positioning AI not as an add-on tool, but as a core teacher assistant embedded across lesson planning, content creation, assessments, and student feedback systems.
‘FUTURE-READY INDIA’
Lauding this initiative, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Education, said, “As we move from vision to execution, initiatives like the AI Literacy Program for Teachers are pivotal to shaping India’s unique pathway in artificial intelligence: one that is inclusive in access, interoperable in design, and sovereign in capability. By integrating AI into everyday classrooms, we are not merely introducing technology; we are empowering our teachers to become architects of a future-ready India. Training one million teachers is more than a milestone of scale: it is the foundation of a responsible, ethical, and India-centric AI ecosystem in education, firmly aligned with Honourable PM Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of Viksit Bharat.”
Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, added, “India’s strength lies in its scale and diversity, and technology must rise to meet that complexity. As AI begins to reshape education, building AI literacy among teachers becomes foundational to ensuring meaningful adoption. This initiative demonstrates how AI can be integrated into everyday teaching practices enabling teachers to enhance pedagogy, improve efficiency, and deliver better learning outcomes at scale. We are proud to be a part of this great initiative.”
SYSTEMIC SHIFT IN TEACHING
Further, Dr. Mitesh Khapra, Principal Investigator, Bodhan AI, said, “Our goal is simple but ambitious to make AI a trusted co-pilot for every teacher in India. This program moves beyond awareness to real, daily usage helping teachers save time, improve instructional quality, and focus more on what truly matters: student engagement and learning.”
The program addresses one of the most pressing challenges in education today: teacher workload and classroom diversity. By enabling teachers to use AI for routine and high-effort tasks such as lesson planning, worksheet generation, multilingual content delivery, and evaluation, the initiative is expected to:
Ø Reduce teacher workload
Ø Improve consistency and quality of teaching materials
Ø Enable more personalized and data-driven learning experiences
Rather than fragmented tool usage, the program introduces a structured AI-integrated teaching workflow, ensuring scalable adoption across central, state, and government-supported schools.
Built for Scale
Following this announcement, the initiative will be rolled out in phases, undertaking pre-pilots and pilots through the coming months, leading to the launch of the first public cohort on Teachers’ Day (September 5), and scaling to 1 million teachers by 2027. This is not incremental improvement, it is a national transformation in foundational and AI-enabled learning, built on evidence and designed for hockey stick growth.
Aligned with the broader Bharat EduAI stack vision of Bodhan AI, the program focuses on capabilities such as:
Ø AI-driven lesson planning and content generation
Ø Automated assessment (including handwritten evaluation)
Ø Multilingual translation and communication tools
Ø AI-assisted administrative workflows
Ø Student-facing AI tutors for guided learning
This creates a fully integrated AI-enabled classroom ecosystem, rather than isolated adoption.
INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION
The success of the program will be driven through close collaboration with the Union Ministry of Education, school systems such as Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas, state governments and Bodhan’s partner ecosystem.
