The year 2021-22 is a remarkable year for India as her efforts to emerge as a world power and major economic giant is taking shape. Incidentally, the year also happens to mark 75 years of India’s independence and reminds us of the decade long struggle that the nation had to endure to gain freedom from foreign domination. However, on the brighter side, in the last seven decades of her independence, India has gone through an evolutionary journey that helper her carve an economic and political identity amidst the global nations. Such glorious moments have been achieved through technological innovation and adoption and sheer determination to excel as a nation. To commemorate such joyous moments, the nation is celebrating Azadi ki Amrit Mahotsav to reinstate its progress and achievements and is dedicated to all those people who have been instrumental in bringing glory to this journey. In this regard, it needs to be mentioned that AI has stood out as one of the frontier technologies, which is shaping the economy’s present and future.

To recognize these technological innovations and milestones, MeitY, NeGD and NASSCOM has joined hands to bring to forefront the most exciting use cases of AI across all sectors spanning healthcare, agriculture, education, governance and financial services and create a compendium for the readers. To honour 75 years of independence, a compendium features 75 use cases that has successfully impacted people and governance across the nation. For the ease of readers, the use cases have been categorized under four heads: government, start-ups, academia and enterprises to fathom the progress of usage driven by such technologies.