AI 2.0 Reimagining Indian education system

Belgrade, and Paris. CPRG brings policymakers, educators, industry, and citizens together to reimagine AI and the future of society. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone for joining this session. Before starting the session, I would like to tell you about CPRG and the future of society, which is a joint initiative. The Center of Policy Research and Governance is a policy think tank that is continuously researching policy and governance issues in different fields. Two years ago, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society.

Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society.

Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. Under Future of Society, we developed a center for the study of the relationship between emerging technologies and society. In light of this, just one year before, we have published one report, Usage of AI in Higher Education. Now, we have just launched, going to release one more report, Usage of AI in School Education. In next month, we are going again, going to launch a report, Future of Job. Future of Job. What kind of future skills, what kind of future jobs are coming?

and they are going, they are transforming we are going to launch a report on that but now, it is in next month but now the report we are going to launch that is AI in school education and to launch that, I call all my guests and Pranav ji to the stage now we have a short presentation with some salient findings from our study

So AI in school education, this is a survey report that we have conducted late last year as part of our ongoing internal activities on mapping AI usage among students in India in various sectors in India So over the past year, CPRG has now released two reports on AI adoption in education So last year we released a report on AI adoption in higher education This was the first ever survey based report in India on mapping everyday AI use among college students Today now we are launching our new report on AI adoption in school education Both studies have been conducted in Delhi where we have actually gone to students, interviewed them to understand what are they using AI for, how often they are using AI for and what are various challenges and opinion on usage of AI So firstly, if we just compare our broad findings, what we find is that AI use among school students remains relatively high, though marginally lower than what we found among college students within the same city because both studies were conducted in Delhi.

Yet what we find is that nearly 50 % of students, and these are of course, these are students from private schools in Delhi, that was our limited sample, almost 50 % of them use AI -based tools. These could be generative AI platforms or other AI tools multiple times a week. What are patterns of AI or edtech use as per academic stream? So what we’re finding is that while AI use, especially generative AI platforms such as strategy, GPT, Gemini remains relatively high. What this is also leading to is also, leading to some sort of a challenge to traditional methods of learning and edtech platforms that have become extremely prominent and widely used over the past few years.

then what are students using AI for so apart from asking how often are students using AI we also try to delve into what are they using AI for and what we find in our study is that AI use is essentially concentrated for generally searching for new academy for academic information while studying or writing assistance and this of course varies across streams because some students may be more into more engaged in practice solving question solving and yeah use depends on depends on usage but however what we find is that among science students for instance while there’s high AI usage for learning concepts there is very limited usage for structured tasks like calculations or calculations or solving questions because that is where various AI platforms still have relatively low accuracy now what is perceived helpfulness of AI for school examinations and entrances and here what we interestingly what we find are a few things one there is relatively high perceived helpfulness of AI platforms for both studying for school exams and entrance exams while especially for entrance exams, students who are in the science team are more likely to prepare for entrance exams are still more dependent on offline classes or edtech platforms.

Yet the level at which we are seeing perceived AI helpfulness, it means that there is an emerging challenge that is coming to edtech platforms through free usage of generative AI platforms. AI support in learning and performance. So how do students rate AI -based platforms or AI -based tools in terms of their actual impact? And what we find is that apart from, of course, learning complex topics, improving their time management, there is a substantial proportion of students who are actually attributing improvement in their academic performance to use of AI platforms. At the same time, students report issues with accuracy and challenges in AI use. One of the major challenges with respect to AI use is that a significant proportion of students regularly encounter AI hallucination or are able to identify that they are getting incorrect information.

Then secondly, as I mentioned, when it comes to accuracy for logical or numerical subjects, there is relatively lower reported accuracy. Again, this is something that various platforms are still working on in terms of trying to improve their performance and accuracy. Next is apart from their overall planning and understanding overall AI uses, we also try to compare AI platforms and their performance with other tools. So what we did was we asked students, number one, is our AI performing? Are AI platforms better than YouTube? or ICT -based learning, and there what we find is that there’s still overwhelming support for YouTube, video, or ICT -based learning tools. Secondly, there’s a whole question of adaptive learning and AI addressing individual needs.

Here, there is an overwhelming evaluation by students that while AI tools might be helpful, they are not necessarily providing solutions that are specific to their needs. And this, of course, might be because of the nature of AI tools that students are using, which is in most cases free models of generative AI platforms as opposed to specific AI tools that are actually able to undertake adaptive learning. And then finally, we tried to ask about AI versus human interaction. So the idea of AI tutors or AI -based learning tools replacing in -person teaching, there again, there’s an overwhelming support, there’s essentially overwhelming support for the idea that students still prefer AI -based learning tools. So there’s an overwhelming support for the idea that students still prefer traditional human interaction.

based learning. So what we’re finding in our study is that while AI is definitely emerging as AI use is definitely increasing significantly among students, it is still considered as a supplementary tool as opposed to a main as opposed to a replacement or substitute for traditional teaching. So these were some of the findings we have more detailed findings in our report and at the end I would just like to thank our team that worked on this report. I would like to thank Nitin, Mehta and Ms. Suchitra Tripathi for their guidance and oversee of this research and I would like to thank our team members Gauri, Shreya, Anupriya, Rashi, Mika and Shugal for their active involvement and participation in the study.

Thank you so much.

Thank you Pranavji for the presentation. Today as a panelist now we have Professor KK Agarwal sir, President South Asian University We have Professor Pankaj Roda, sir, Chairperson of National Council of Teacher Education. Suresh Yadav, sir, Executive Director, Commonwealth Secretariat. Andrao B. Patil, sir, Assistant Secretary, Higher Education. And we have Aditi Nanda, Director, Education and Industry, Intel. And, Agrawal, sir, you have seen, you know, the transformation during IT movement. And if I can align correctly, at that time you had developed Interpress University. And maybe because at that time IT was also in boom and you were in the process to develop a new institution. So, you have seen the transformation. So, when you are developing an institution, you must be having in mind how IT is going to challenge those, you know, kind of traditional or conservative approach of, you know, institutions.

Now again you are the president of South Asian University, it’s one of the iconic institutions in India. And again you are facing new challenge from the AI. So how you are finding this AI is different from the past IT. Because in your lifetime you have seen two movements, first IT, now AI. And at the same time you are developing two new institutions. Because before you, Sao was not in that position. But now Sao is leading. So how you are finding?

Thank you Ramananthi for the question. Yes, in a way when I was asked to develop the very first university in Delhi, Indraprastha University. And it was a challenge because it was the first university in the country. and your very right IT movement was also in the offing it probably happened by coincidence that the vice chancellor which is me which was appointed at that time belonged to the discipline of IT. This was probably never a calculation but it happened for the good of the country and the university I believe because you could get two in one kind of person to develop so we made sure that right from beginning IT is, that was the time when if you remember I saw the students in Delhi incidentally I think this was the first university in Delhi for the students after Delhi University who was an affiliated university so I was seeing the students go to the Delhi University colleges, they are not satisfied with the employment and in the evening they go to a tech company and do a course there so I was there for the course and they were very happy Now that was very disturbing to me Why the students should feel Not very satisfied at the end of the formal school Or formal college And then try to do that So my first thing was Let’s combine the two So our curriculum itself should integrate both If the students have a job in IT sector Why should we not realize this And make sure that every subject is more IT saving And so on and so forth Now when I am here The challenge obviously as you say is AI AI is fortunately being adopted by the youngsters even faster Which was expected IT was also adopted by them faster than the elders AI is being adopted much faster than elders Which is a good sign Only thing which one has to see is As I said in the whole process of using AI AI Let’s make sure it supplements our creativity.

It does not give us a shortcut to creativity and thereby reduce our creativity powers. That is a challenge which we have to face in academics. Short of that, it’s a good opportunity for all of us.

Sweshar, while working with President Mukherjee, you have introduced a lot of technological tools, and a lot of innovation, not only in the finance industry, but as an advisor of the President, you have introduced a lot of educational innovation as well. I think that was before the time of 2014 and 2015. After COVID -19, the educational system has been changed, and it is getting changed very fast. How, you know, you will analyze and how we’ll assess this kind of change, and what will you suggest, you know, to educational institution and to the head of the institution to, you know, kind of to address those challenges posed by AI and other emerging technology?

Thank you very much, and first of all, a big congratulations on this fantastic report, which talks about the AI in school education and also your previous reports, which talks about AI, and I think it’s a very good documentation to understand where we stand as a society, as a country, as an institution in the emerging landscape. COVID changed, Ramananji, drastically the way the world look at the various way of doing the things. I mean, going to the office was normal. Now, not going to the office. office is normal. So there is a fundamental shift. It’s very difficult to get the people back to office and the argument is that if I can do my job better while sitting in my home, why do you want me to come to the office?

So these are the fundamental shifts which we have witnessed post -COVID. And then if you look at the artificial intelligence, it’s a paradigm shift. It’s not only 180 degree, it’s a 360 degree shift. We don’t know which direction and what direction we are going. Any organization, any society, any institution which is not live and kicking to this new emerging reality will be fossilized. Remember, we have in 180 controlling the almost one -third GDP of the world. And it was not the country which was leading, it was the institutions. It was the institutions of that time. which were producing the skill which can produce the goods and services and the material which can dominate the world.

So it was the role of the institutions. Of course, the government has now tried to recreate Nalanda, which is coming out very well. So the point I’m trying to emphasize is that the role of educational institutions is of paramount importance. No institutions can dominate the world. No country can dominate the world unless the institutions dominate the world. If you look today, the U.S. is dominating the world not because of the military power, but because of the higher education system. If you look at China, the Chinese universities are coming on the top. The number of research in the field of computer science, AI, machine learning, computer vision is dwarfing the research being done in the United States now.

So that’s the level of the shift. So when I’m talking about, in your topic, reimagining the education system and education system in the United States, India, I’m not talking of today, I’m talking of India of 2050, India of 2100. And one thing I keep saying that India, a lot of people say it’s a $5 trillion economy, they’re very happy that we are the third largest in PPP, fourth largest in the other term, but I’m not happy. Because India as of now of 1 .5 billion people, if you look at the European standard of GDP per capita, we should be more than 70 trillion. If you look at the American standards of GDP, we should be more than 150 trillion, more than the size of the world economy.

So that is the level, that is the where we have to think that what kind of institutions we need, what kind of infrastructure we need, what kind of history we need. Is it the degree, the undergrad degree, master’s degree, PhD’s degree, I got all the degrees. I studied in India from IIT, Indian School of Business, I studied in US, UK, Germany, India, India, India, India, India, India, India, India, India, India, India, India, Sweden, everywhere I have just to educate myself that how the things are different. What are the fundamental differences? So that is something which we have to realize and not do the reforms. This is not the time for doing the reforms in the higher education system.

It’s like reimagining. You see what we reimagine India in terms of digital India, we are getting the dividend. We are a country which is entirely on different level generating billions of transactions on the digital UPI system which was unheard. So similarly we need a higher education system, we need a general education system which can give an exponential bump to India’s story and that’s not going to be the normal system. It’s going to be something very, very different and that is going to be based on the foundation of the technologies. We have been talking that this is the first time in the history of India though it has been tried several times in the past to link the north and south.

Language barriers always existed. But AI dismantles the barrier. I was in my village. We set up AI lab. We set up AI shop. And my message to villagers, you can speak in your Bhojpuri to U.S., to Russia, to Japan. So that is the first time a fundamental shift in connectivity is happening around the world. And India being a young nation, a country of young people, almost 44 million students in the higher education ecosystem, almost running parallel to China, we have that power and potential to change. And the moment we are able to use this technology, I’m sure that we will realize the potential. So I say in terms of potential, I say I am number one economy.

India is number one economy, not third or fourth. So that’s the mindset. Because I have to reach to my potential. And I will reach the potential only when I know my potential, what is expected. So there is a huge responsibility of the Indians of the present generation, not only for themselves, but the Indians of 2100, Indians of 2050. And if we are not able to capitalize, this AI boom will be left behind. If you see the geopolitics around the world, we say it’s a new war and all, but it’s the technology war, it’s the AI war. Countries are understanding that those who will dominate AI, they will dominate the world for the next century. So we have to love it.

We have no option as a nation. And the education system, which is one of the biggest in the world, will have a very catalytic role in realizing that dream of India

Pankaj sir, as a head and dean, you have changed the curriculum of University of Delhi. You have also… Well, you know… you know introduce lot of skill -based course during your time and make it you know outcome oriented but the ai challenge is new uh you know and now as a chairperson of nct you also seeing the lot of diversity among the institutions from the jhabua to delhi and you know it’s a multi -layer system and as you know chairperson of nct how will you introduce kind of you know ensure institutions they can respond in the same manner to the challenge of ai because there are a lot of diversity in india and there is a lot of diversity you know about having those kind of resources because ai also need a lot of resources not in only in financial term but in the term of technology and kind of having electricity and other thing so how do you how will you ensure?

on the same topic. So AI can assist. AI cannot be a master. It is an assistant. If we use it for ethical reasoning, if we use it for creativity, collaboration, adaptability, I see teachers will increasingly function as mentors and learning designers, not learning followers, and ethical guides and facilitators of inquiry in a classroom situation, as well as in writing textbooks and developing curriculum. AI -based output demands AI supervision. AI supervision, I mean, AI cannot be left free to design any curriculum. We need to supervise it. When I say, we all know the difference between governance and leadership. Governance, I call, like, governance means compliance manager. If whatever is coming to you, you are implementing it.

You know? whether it is a college, university or any other organization. And if you are an academic leader, then you make a change in that compliance. Compliance will take place because governance is essential. But at the same time, you bring change according to the needs of your institution, needs of your students, needs of your financial resources, etc. Similarly, in education, we must not become AI followers. We should become AI leaders for the time. Yesterday, Honorable Prime Minister said we have tremendous potential to become AI leaders for the world. In those lines, as NCT Chairman, we have brought two new programs, NPST, National Professional Standards for Teachers, and NMM, National Mentoring Mission. Both are designed on a digital platform, on a digital world.

And AI is helping us analyzing people’s queries, their questions, their anxiety, and helping them. to identify right mentor for them. And mentor -mentee is always a guru -shishya context which is very meaningful and useful. I’ll close this remark by saying now we are moving away from treating technology as one of workshop. Rather than we should shift towards multi -semester AI spine. AI is spine of entire education system nowadays. And our new program ITEP have multiple context of AI based technology. We must transit from product only evaluation to process rich evidence of learning. That is more meaningful. In 2012 CBSC brought continuous comprehensive evaluation. Now AI is helping us to go for process rich evidence in learning.

Risk landscape is there. Bias, heliconations are there. But uneven access to technology is also a challenge that should be taken into consideration. My last closing remark is AI plus education can take us towards VIXIT BHAGAL 2047. AI is not a choice. It is a part of our life and providing us multiple new methods of research, new methods of industrial internship, but education which is providing culture, language and humanistic approach, both need to work hand in hand for better future for VIXIT BHAGAL 2047. Thank you.

Patil sir, as an Adjacent Secretary, School Education, you embedded technology and through technology you have been in our track not only Nipun but other platforms. Thank you. The focus of the government on learning outcomes has improved a lot. Now you are in higher education. And higher education is a very diverse sector. And at the same time, in contrast to school education, in higher education, you have more controlling power than a single person. School education is subject to some time in contract list. So that’s why. What is your vision now to transform those higher education institutions in the age of AI? Because the challenge of AI is constantly coming. Not only for the students, but as well as administrators as well.

And at that time, what are you planning? How will you address those issues?

Thank you, sir. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity. I would like to ask a few of the… I think I’m seeing a lot of students here. Can somebody tell me how much time telephone took to reach to 5 crores? How much subscriber are users? Yes. any guesses 30 as a good guess anybody else quickly 50 years okay good some more yes yes somebody sitting right up the stable 75 years yes so it took five you grow people go the telephone my light we took 75 years it took 38 years to reach this radio took 38 years to reach to 5 crore people our charge EPT any guesses Gemini took for 60 days to do is to the 5 crore people whereas charge a pity to 40 days to restore to 5 or people so this is the I think there is a quantum jump or whatever you see It is a huge jump.

And with this, it is a big challenge for the educationists in both school and higher education. I can just read some figures for many of you that in world, we are having around, say, mobile users. In the world, there are 749 crore people, whereas in India, 120 crore people. Internet, 600 crore people. They are using it in India, it is 100 crore. In Google world, 580 people, 580 crore people are using Google, whereas in India, it is 80 crore. And charge APT, world, it is 80 crore. This is last month’s data, not this month. So around 7 crore people, they are using charge APT in India and 1 crore in Gemini. So around, maybe by this time, 10 crore people will be using charge APT in Gemini here.

Now the challenges, what are coming up, I will come to that. I am not pessimistic at all. But if you see. In the education ecosystem, Suresh sir also has told. and other speakers have just told. This is very important to see what is the cohort. Around 25 crore children are in the school education and 4 .6 crore students are in the higher education. So around 30 crore we can say. Now 15 lakh schools are there in India. And right now if you see the infrastructure around 4 crore, sorry 4 lakh schools only having the computers. ICT labs and tablets and other things. So it is a huge challenge to take the AI revolution to last mile.

We are aware, as I told you I worked in school education, now in higher education. So we are having integrated approach and we are working on that. But we need your help. Second one if you see in school education, around 1 crore teachers are there right now. And most of them are women. So which is really good change is happening there. But how many of you are in school education? many are AI savvy or AI literate, we are working on that and NCD chairman sir has already told on that, Pankaj sir has told on that. Now coming to the different digital divide, Delhi schools if you say and the remote area schools, the tribal areas or as you can see, madam is also from Bangalore, I last week went there, there is huge development so the cities, the way they are catching up AI is huge, humongous progress is there but rural area and other places it is a big challenge.

Central schools like KVS, NVS they are doing really good in catching up with AI, using the AI technologies, even CBS is coming with AI curriculum, whereas in the report also I have seen like Andhra, Assam, Tamil Nadu and few other states are using the AI curriculum and AI tools for implementation in the education system, whereas other states are using AI. to catch up. So there is little bit divide in this and it will take time for India to catch up. But yes all of us are now agreed that yes AI is not going anywhere. AI has to be used. AI is useful and same time AI is not enough. We should treat AI as a machine not as a human being which is very very important.

AI if you started taking as a human being then it will be problem. It will be huge mental stress on the students and other users also. So we are aware of this. That is why school education has taken very wise decision to introduce AI curriculum in third grade. It is not to teach the AI. It is to teach what is AI. What are the uses of AI and whether it is good or bad. So children should know about it which is very very important. So coming generation, coming of generation new generation, next generation must Learn AI because it is very, very useful. Yesterday, as Pankaj sir has told, the Prime Minister has told that AI, India has to become hub of AI.

And yesterday evening, yesterday full day, we had the meeting with Spain universities. Today, again, we are having the meeting with the Spain universities. Like that, a lot of meetings are going on, MOAs are happening. You may be knowing that IIT Madras has developed one tool where Dr. Kamakoti has spoken. It has spoken in Tamil and it has been translated in 11 languages of India. As Suresh sir was also telling that when you speak in Bhojpuri, it can get translated in others. So there is huge potential. I have seen from Siksha Lokam, they have shown me that again in Bihar, the villagers, the women, they are talking about dropouts. Why I got dropout? Why my daughter is getting dropout?

What are the issues? They are talking in the local language. And AI is actually summarizing. They are translating in English and various other languages. So they are talking and with that there is no typing, nothing else. It is getting summarized, classified and as an administrator we can take decisions. So AI is a boon if we are using it very properly and AI will become a ban if it is misused or unethically used. As sir was asking me for the challenges in AI, yes there are many challenges. What we are doing right now is updating the curriculum, we are doing educational governance which is coming up. But many IITs they brought AI schools in their campuses.

They are having MOUs with Google, Microsoft and various other places. Wadwani Foundation has also started one AI school in one of the IITs. A lot of investment is going on. We have already started AI CO in education and IIT Madras is hosting that. A lot of work going in that. Sarvam is also. He is also helping us in. those initiatives. But yes, there is parity, there is disparity. We need to sort out those issues. And AI is not only for the STEM that we understood and we are implementing that way. Everybody has to understand what is AI and how we can take it forward. As Suresh has told about economy, I think we both have worked previously in Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance together.

I got his guidance there. So the way he has told, you can see it is, now we are talking about reimagining the education. So whatever you imagine, what is your vision, you are going to achieve that. So we should not limit our vision. I think 140 crore population and plus it is coming up. It is required to have really big vision, but same time necessity skills. Skills are required. And one of the reports suggests that if one year of schooling is happening, the 24 percent, there is output increase in the labor output actually. Labor can the output will increase by 24%. And in India we are having these certain issues. If you see what labor force is giving the output in US, what is given in South Africa and what is given in India, there is really we need to think about it.

So year of schooling is very very important. We are having challenges of dropouts also. Luckily Vidyasa Mishra Kendras and other tools we are using to trace the dropouts and bring them in the mainstreaming. You can also see around 5 crore children are dropped out. And various state governments are working on that to bring it down. So European Union few countries may be having this population of 5 crore. So challenges in India are more, much more but as Madam was also asking me what will be the impact of AI summit. I think it will be huge impact on us. Next two years we can see what will happen. the way India is going to change as again I can say one last example and come back when I was working in banking department people said there is something called payment through the mobiles and when I was discussing with our CMDs of the banks those days they were CMDs now it is MDs and they told me that no it is not going to work here and South Africa started there Airtel itself started it there and 2016 when DMO has come we can see the huge impact and now NPCI we can see the way it is happening around 50 % of digital transactions are happening from India world’s transactions there is huge change I think another two years we can see there is huge change in AI adaptability and using it but one caution is that AI has to be used as a tool it has to be used ethically and it has to be used for the humanity that is what I can say thank you so much and we are getting prepared for that sir as IITs are far better IIMs are far better whereas central universities are catching up with this EI and we are trying to help with them.

Thank you sir.

Thank you sir. I think that as you have brought everyone on one platform in school education similarly, the same way, in higher education institution, the same way, the scale and maybe the other institution’s scale will increase. We have also Aditi Nanda, Director of Education and Industry. Aditi, in India’s digital journey, I should say that whatever we have seen, lot of transformation in the last 20 years, there has been a lot of importance of the private sector. With the government institution and the education institution, Kali humne ek dekha ki Sharvamaiyai ne apna ek language model launch kiya. Aur usko kaafi hua. To Intel India ke educational journey se kaafi associate raha hai. As a part of the industry, how do you see as an opportunity and challenge?

Not for the only industry, but for the education sector as well. Thank you, Dr.

Namanan, and thank you for having me here. It’s been very interesting and it’s been a pleasure for me to listen to all the other panelists here. Got to learn quite a lot. And congratulations on the report. So very interesting and very pertinent point that you raise, that the industry also needs to work with different players, not just with the government, but also academia. and create a change. So I have a very interesting job. I work with the ecosystem and industry. And in that, I get to work with different startups, get to know different ISVs, and really see the innovation that’s happening. And some of these innovations are interesting to see because they are cutting edge.

They are coming from India, for India, and then they go for the world. Like you just mentioned, sir, Patil sir was just talking about, you know, the digital payment. And I think you were mentioning M -Pesa from an Airtel perspective. So how we have taken, you know, the UPI and other things, and we are taking this to the world. It’s a very proud moment. But it starts with an idea. And it starts with something that needs to be nurtured by everyone. If we have, and that’s what the AI Summit, it’s a great moment for all of us. We’ve put ourselves on the world map. We’ve shown the world that we can do great. And here is where the technology innovation is happening.

And from an Intel perspective, We work not just very closely with higher ed but also K -12 and of late we’ve been working with some start -ups to come up with solutions which impact the students at large. So I was talking to somebody the other day and I think Sreshtha was talking about, you know, Bhojpuri getting translated. So I was talking to somebody and said, why are learning outcomes in the Indian tier 2, tier 3 and rural areas not as great? You know, the response came ki bache ko maths or physics nahi samajh mein ata, yeh problem nahi hai. Bache ko English nahi samajh mein ata, yeh problem hai. Kyunki hamara teaching medium o bache ke language mein nahi hai.

And what we are doing today in terms of making sure that the content reaches everybody in the language that they understand. I think that is going to be a game changer. And that is coming from AI and AI is coming from a combination of people. Folks like all of us in the room coming together and saying, okay, let’s make something that will have an impact at population at large. so those are things and you know I was talking to you just before this, he said India mein aisa nahi hai ki people don’t want to buy technology they are not afraid of technology but the problem is and how many of us as parents will always say laptop nahi, bachcha ko laptop nahi dana, bachcha bigar jayega but why are we not seeing the value, why are we not seeing why are we not seeing that a creation device like a laptop or something that is more than a consumption device, where is the value creation in that, can we have AI courses, courses starting from class 3 onwards, going up to higher ed and we have in fact worked, my colleague of mine has worked very closely with CBSC to create a curriculum which has gone into schools right and we worked, Intel has worked together and helped put that together we have a program called Unnati for higher ed and now we are bringing in these courses which are AI for Future Workforce under that umbrella, which has courses like AI and manufacturing.

And we have put this out in Gujarat Technical University, and recently we had somebody come in from there. This girl was the first time, first generation to go to a college. She went through this program, and in this program we also had internship. So she had interned with a startup, sorry, with an industry in Surat that was doing basically textile manufacturing. And she created a project on defect detection using AI. So a kid from a rural area going to college for the first time as the first generation going to college, being so confident about what she had created because it was being used in an industry, and she could see the impact. I mean, those are the stories and those are the things that make you feel like you want to work in this.

The rewards are huge. I think that is what is needed, and Intel is doing, obviously, a great job. All those… bringing these things together and all the programs that we have, whether it’s Unnati, whether it’s Future for Workforce, whether it’s, you know, the stuff that we do in the K -12 space. We’ve got an ISV, a startup that we work with, which is helping teachers become, you know, AI -enabled. So creating, and there is, and it’s all running locally. The content doesn’t even need to go into the cloud. We have solutions running on AI PC, which is what Intel is now bringing to the market. And I would invite you all to please come visit our booth at, of course, AI Summit, because that’s what has brought us all here.

And we’ll show you some of the really cool use cases and demos where voice -to -voice gets translated on the device. So you don’t even need to connect to the internet. You don’t even need to connect to the cloud. Everything is happening on the device. The content is there. And I think I heard hallucination is one problem. That is… what you also, you know, in the report identified. What if the content sits locally on the device itself? So you’re only looking at class 9 science. So when a child asks about a question, maybe they’re just wanting to know how do I get into NEET and JEE, the answer’s coming from there. And it’s coming from a language, coming in a language that the child understands.

So what if that happens? And that exists today. We’ve worked on it. So think of it as a 24 -7 tutor. And one more thing, you know, I don’t know how many of you will relate to this, but at least I used to. When the teacher’s teaching, sab samaj mein aajata tha. But jab ghar jaake wohi concept padhu, toh ye kya hua? Ye kaha se gaayab ho gaya? Toh jab aisa hota hai, and if you’re an introverted child, who do you go and ask? And how do you create that, say, space of asking? You can have tuition teachers, you can have personalizers. But if there is a bot, that is not judging this child. And is saying, hey, come here, I’ll teach you in the language you understand.

and you know as a parent that this is all happening on the PC it is all safeguarded there is lesser chance of hallucination that is what we are working towards and I will finish with because there are all esteemed panelists I think I should finish with a quote Arthur C. Clarke said technology done right is like magic and if we bring that magic of technology plus AI to all kids in India I think we have done our job that’s what

thank you Aditi I think we have few minutes more and we can have just you know a quick round intervention just on the issue when we just try to reimagine institutions what are the two things that we can do in future of institutions and what are the two things that we can do in future of institutions We want to see or we do. Sir, if I may ask, what do you want to see in the future of higher education? What do you want to see?

Anamanand Ji, in the field of higher education, what are you talking about reimagining AI? I think, as Rohrat Ji said, we designed the entire curriculum on the dashboard. We have to make youth the part of the dashboard. The power of AI, which we have established in the national education policy, is that we have to do student -based education. Every classroom will have the same level of students. We have to force the assumption of massification of education. We have an opportunity to come out of this. And to lose this opportunity is a crime. It is a world crime. we shall have to come back to this individualization of education just taking advantage of my little longer journey in education Mr. Patil said the schools may be penetration I just like to remind him when first time the computers were sent to the schools one had master complained to me sir government has given the computers so costly that was the stage from where we have come a long way and now we have reached a critical mass the journey is not going to stop the journey is going to be accelerated what we call the avalanche effect in physics that avalanche effect has come and to prevent it from being arrested this is our responsibility youth will take it forward individual responsibility which I am talking about and an international perspective he goes to the class the first day he says how many ties of size 10 cm by 10 cm I will need to fill a room of 1 m into 1 m in fact it is such a simple question everybody should answer it nobody raised a hand he was frustrated where have I come to teach if this is the level and I was told it is a good class very frustrated finally a girl raised hand said ok at least somebody she said yes come on we will work it together he says sir everything is fine but firstly tell us what is a tie see in that African area the tiles were never used.

They were used for round rooms with round floors and square tiles or rectangular tiles were not in the dictionary. And on that basis, we declare all that class failed in mathematics. That is what we are doing today with the help of simple tests. So we have to find out what is the ground level situation and then go ahead on that to test the ingenuity of that. Lastly, we have not to teach the subjects. We have to teach the students. And therefore, for each student, what can we do? Again, I say, AI is an opportunity, great opportunity. We are talking about reimagining higher education in this summit. And my request with all the persuasion is let the youth assert themselves that we need these subjects to be taught for our degree.

And technology enables us to do that. We will have to do that. That’s my call on this. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Suresh sir, in the same manner, when you reimagine institutions and you are heading up, you know, you’re a part of a global body, what kind of future and what kind of, you know, I will say two or three things you want to see in the future, you know, futuristic education institution.

India has millions and trillions of problems in each and every corner. You pick up one problem, solve it. You get your degree and go. You don’t need to pass all the examination. So that’s the fundamental shift India needs. If we want to go back to what I said in the beginning, that we want to be a nation where skill, capability drives the economy, not the other way around. So that’s the second. The third one you see, the 12th education system, the higher education system, the primary education systems works in silos. We have to find and technology allow it to do it to interconnect the entire systems. And in the U.S., the higher education and the high school systems are very well connected in the part of ecosystem.

The moment we do that, we will have a thriving higher education, thriving education system, and pushing India into a very high growth trajectory. to realize the dream which I talk about, our number one nations, not by 2050, 2070, but very soon. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Pankaj sir, as a chairperson of NCT, when you reimagine a teacher education institution or think about how a teacher education institution will be in the future, what are the two or three features that come to your mind that you think a future teacher education center should have?

Yes, as a regulator for teacher education, now Vixit Bharat Adhishthan is coming, where it has been proposed to go with AI -oriented regulator. That regulator is not supposed to have a lot of human working for it, but 70 to 80 % assessment will be done through AI. So, AI is going to play a an important role, not only as a regulator, but also as a norms and standards developer for the nation, for academic programs also and for teachers also. I think the responsibility to promote research ethics among young people is very, very critical at the moment. Somebody is writing a letter to his wife and asking AI to give me a letter. So this is ridiculous.

It cannot give you emotion into that, personalized flavor to that. So research ethics, when you are doing any research for any class level, then we need to think of assessment devices, evaluation and assessment, which is lacking behind. We are developing content through AI, but we are not doing assessment through AI. This year, CBSC is trying to assess class 12 answer script through technology, but those would be only scanned documents. We’ll check by teacher. from their own remote place. But that is the beginning of bringing technology into assessment. And my last point would be, Indian knowledge, Indian languages, we must start working very, very hard on this. Because if we actually want to pass on Indian tradition to the next generation, AI can become an important tool for that.

If we take AI out of Western knowledge, if we promote it in Indian knowledge, Indian context, Indian languages, then we will really help the next generation. And as the Prime Minister said, we have two AIs, Aspired India and Artificial Intelligence. So we must take both of them to optimum use. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Patil sir, from the ministry perspective, how you visualize future universities, and what kind of change you want to bring higher education institutions? which we want to build for the future.

Again, same thing that Sir has told that it should be integrated. School and higher education, I would like to say that few universities have agreed to reach out to 100 schools. In Pune, there is a university called COEP. So they are telling that every day one school will come, visit, see their libraries, see their laboratories, meet their teachers. The teachers will go to the schools, they will interact. Because many of them are not knowing what is the present school. And what I was in the school and today’s school, there is huge change. Really huge change is there. So that has to be seen and it should be integrated. One more point that NEP says there is innate talent among the students.

So students should understand that and work on it, on your skills and meaningfully contribute to the economy which is very, very important. So once 140 crore population of India started contributing to the economy means above the income tax. level I am telling that pre -income tax level so minimum 5 lakhs or 6 lakhs it is going to be huge change here third point is brick mortar schools are going universities are going that is already we are seeing this huge change but same time teachers cannot be removed actually the teachers mentors facilitators has to be there and even we are requested even Intel we had last time meeting also with the companies to be mentor actually you should also tell kids enough is enough one hour up you are playing with the games or you are using this thing so stop it there which is really required so ethical use is very very important yes we need to create a platform where all of the people can come that is what EI COE in education happening with Madras IIT where schools and higher educations are coming together higher institutions are coming together private players also coming together so I think I recently seen one startup in IIT Delhi where they don’t like this hotel rooms and all that.

So he not want any hotel rooms at all, like that. These startups don’t have any classrooms, they don’t have any infrastructure at all. But they teach in medical education actually with this permission from the regulator. Paramedician basically are working it. Youngsters are here, lot of youngsters are here. Friends, their annual turnover is 200 crore in just last two years. They are telling another one year will reach 400 crore. So I think there is huge opportunity for all of us. We should work on it. Thank you so much.

Thank you, sir. Aditi, your comment on future of institution.

Sure, sir. I think everybody has done a great job. Job of articulating that. If we do this, everything will be done, I think. That is what I think.

Thank you everyone for joining us and thank you for our eminent panel to put light on reimagining the institutions and I think that what we are thinking about how the future institutions will be when we start thinking it will start to grow and thank you everyone