AI 2.0 The Future of Learning in India

Thank you everyone for joining this session. Before we start the session, I would like to tell you about the joint initiative of CPRG and Future of Society. The Centre of Policy Research and Governance is a policy think tank that is continuously researching policy and governance issues in different fields. Two years ago, the Emerging Technology Centre was established by the International Cooperation Centre for the Development of Technology and the Relation of Technology and Society. We have developed a Future of Society project to study the relationship between technology a centre developed here. Under Future of Society, we are continuously working on the various sector, producing report, doing a lot of stakeholder consultation. In this light, 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 report, Future of Job. There is a lot of fear, and this fear is not just outside it is also coming in people’s minds. Whether their acquired skill will survive in the next 5 or 10 years or not, as emerging technologies are coming. Along with this, there is also a fear that it will not happen and the type of tool that is being developed, human skills or human mind will become irrelevant. By keeping all these things in mind, what kind of transformation is happening, what kind of future skills, what kind of future jobs are coming, and they are going to be transformed, we are going to launch a report on that.

But that is in the next month. But the report that we are going to launch now, that is AI in school education, and to launch that, I call all my guests and Mr. Pranav to the stage. Thank you.

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 and 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 AI 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 exams and exams? So what is perceived helpfulness of AI for school exams and exams? So what is perceived school exams and exams? So what is perceived helpfulness of AI for school exams and exams? So what is perceived helpfulness of AI for school exams and exams? So what is perceived helpfulness of AI for school exams and exams? So what is perceived helpfulness of AI for school 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, improving 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 students, 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 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 might 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 the we tried to ask about AI versus human interaction. So why? So the idea of AI tutors or AI based learning tools replacing in -person teaching, there again, there’s an overwhelming support to the essentially 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 inter -AI use is definitely increasing significantly among students, it is still considered as a supplementary tool 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 Pranav ji for the presentation. Today as a panelists now we have Professor KK Agarwal sir. President South Asian University We have Professor Pankaj Arora Sir Chairperson of National Council of Teacher Education Suresh Yadav Sir Executive Director, Commonwealth Secretary Andrao B. Patil Sir Adolescent Secretary, Higher Education And we have Aditi Nanda Director, Education and Industry, Intel And Agrawal Sir You have seen the transformation during IT movement And if I can align it correctly At that time you had developed Interpress University And maybe because at that time IT was also in the process of developing a new institution So you have seen the transformation during IT movement So when you are developing an institution At that time it must be happening in your mind For the how you know i .t is going to challenge those you know kind of uh traditional or conservative approach of you know institutions now again you are the president of south asian university it’s you know one of the iconic institution in india and again you are facing new challenge you know from the ai so how you are you know how you are finding this ai is different from the i you know past i .t because in your lifetime you have seen two movement first i .t now ai and at the same time you are developing two new institutions because before you saw was you not in that position but now so is leading so how you are finding

thank you for the question yes in a way when i was asked to develop the very first university 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. 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 the 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 student go to the Delhi University colleges. They had not said this before. with the employment and in the evening they go to a tech company and do a course there. Now that was very much 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. Only thing which one has to see is as I said in the whole process of using AI let’s make sure it supplements our creativity it does not give us a shortcut to creativity and thereby reduce our thinking powers. That is a challenge which we have to face in academics. Short of that it is a good opportunity for all of us.

While working with President Mukherjee you have introduced a lot of technological tools and a lot of innovation not only in the field of finance ministry but as an advisor of President you have introduced a lot of educational innovation as well. And I think that was before time of 2014 and 2015. After the COVID -19 the educational institution has been changed and it is getting changed very fast. How you will analyze and how we will assess this kind of change and what will you suggest to education institution and to the head of the institution 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 looks at the various ways of doing the things. I mean, going to the office was normal. Now, not going to the 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 ship. So when I’m talking about your topic. reimagining the education system in 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 are 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 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, 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 exist. It’s very difficult to do it. but AI dismantles the barrier I was in my village we set up AI lab, we set up AI shop and my message to the villagers you can speak in your Bhojpuri to US, 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 am 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 is the mindset because I have to reach to my potential and I will reach the potential only when I know my potential what it exists 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 of 2100. Thank you and over to you, Ramananji.

Pankaj sir, as a head and dean, you have changed the curriculum of University of Delhi. You have also introduced a lot. You have introduced a lot of skill -based course during your time and make it outcome -oriented. But the AI challenge is new. And now as a chairperson of NCT, you also see a lot of diversity among the institutions, from the Jhabua to Delhi, and, you know, it’s a multi -layer system. And as a chairperson of NCT, how will you introduce, kind of, you know, ensure that all the institutions can respond in the same manner to the challenge of AI? Because there is a lot of diversity in India. And there is a lot of diversity, you know, about having those kind of resources.

Because AI also needs a lot of resources, not only in a financial term, but in the term of technology and kind of having electricity and other things. So how do you see and how will you ensure?

then we must say that structural and epistemic shift is not merely technological. It is fundamental change that how knowledge is produced, assessed, and evaluated in the day -to -day life of a student. If we look at teacher education, yes, in CI, during my headship, we brought new programs. We revised all the curriculums of BH, MAD, ITEP. And during those changes, our focus was to meet the expectations of young learners in 21st century. Young learner is into technology throughout. When I was doing my college, those days, computers came to the world. And we were very scared of computers. We were told that unemployment will increase because one computer will be… work in place of four or five people.

So as a young student, we protested. against this technology. But today, reality is different. Computer is giving us multiple new avenues of employment in our daily life. So when you revise curriculum, two things I would like to mention here. One, curriculum revision exercise at University of Delhi took place in 2019. And this entire exercise was techno -based. We did it through dashboard system without human intervention, intervention, without having formal meetings and budget of lakhs of rupees to meet, to eat, to TA, to DA, and everything. So zero penny was spent when 72 programs were revised for LOCF curriculum framework. And then in CI, when we took up this exercise, again I followed the same model.

Techno -oriented, technology -supported revision took place. In a record period of two months, we revised almost all the courses in education at University of Delhi. now if we look at role of a teacher what type of teacher we need to meet future generation in my family I have teachers who are dealing with class 3 students class 7 students and senior secondary classes as well as university teaching they all are saying AI is posing a threat to cognitive development of the learner yes it is posing a threat but at the same time we must realize that AI is not going to replace teachers teachers are always there and here I say they both complement each other no challenge no competition between two they complement because a teacher after the use of AI based technology or video or some other context a teacher is the person who can create sensitivity sensitivity in the class related to the topic as well as allow diverse opinions 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 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. Organization, 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 the right mentor for them.

And mentor -mentee is always a guru -shishya context, which is very meaningful and useful. I will close this remark by saying, now we are moving away from treating technology as one -off 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 contexts of AI -based technology. We must transit from product -only evaluation to process -rich evidence of learning. That is more meaningful. In 2012, CBSE 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 Bharat 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 Bharat 2047. Thank you.

Patil sir, as an administration secretary, school education, you have embedded technology and through technology, you have been in our track, not only Nipun, but other platforms have been transformed so much that 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 the same time you know in contrast to school education higher education may up to pass controlling power be a critical to jada hoti school education is subject to some time you know in contract list so that’s why abhi aapka kya vision hai to you know to transform those higher education institution in the age of AI AI kya ek challenge hai lagataar aa raha hai not only for the students but as well administrator as well aur us time mein aap ki planning kar rahe ho ki how will you you know address those issues

thank you sir thank you so much for giving me the opportunity I would like to ask few of the I’m seeing a lot of students here so can somebody tell me that how much time telephone took to reach to five growth subscriber our users any guesses 30 years good guess anybody else quickly 50 years okay good some more yes here somebody sitting right of the stable 75 years yes so it took five crore people go your telephone my light it took 75 years it took 38 years to reach this radio took 38 years to reach to 5 crore people our charge gpt any guesses germany took for 60 days to do is to the 5 crore people whereas charge a pity to 40 days to reach to 5 crore people so this is the i think there is a quantum jump or whatever you say it is a huge jump and with this it is a big challenge for the educationists and both school and higher education.

I can just read some figures for benefit of you that in world we are having around say mobile users in the world there are 749 crore people whereas 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 CharGPT world it is 80 crore this is last month’s data not this month. So around 7 crore people they are using CharGPT in India and 1 crore in Gemini. So around maybe by this time 10 crore people will be using CharGPT and 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 as Suresh sir also has told and other speakers also have told.

This is very important to see how what is the this cohort, around 25 crore children are in the school education and 4 .6 crore children are in the higher education 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 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 which is, we are aware as I also 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 are AI savvy or AI literate we are working on that and And Sir NCT 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 rural areas, 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 here is huge. Humongous progress is there. But the rural area and other places, it is a big challenge. Central schools like KVS, NVS, they are doing really good in catching up with the AI, using the AI technologies. Even CBS is coming with the AI curriculum. Whereas in the report also I’ve seen, like Andhra, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and a few other states are using the AI curriculum and AI tools for implementation in the education system.

Whereas other states are here 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 at the 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’s 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 up generation new generation, young generation must learn AI because it is very very useful.

Yesterday as Pankaj sir has told that 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 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 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 in English and other languages.

so they are talking and with it 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 bane if it is misused or unethically used. As sir you are 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 such as coming up many IITs they brought AI schools in their campuses they are having MOUs with Google, Microsoft and various other places Wadhani Foundation has also started one AI school in one of the IITs.

Lot of investment is going on. We are already started AI COE in education and IIT Madras is hosting that. Lot of work going going on. Lot of work going on. Lot of work going on. Lot of work going going on. Lot of work going on. Lot of work going on. Lot of work going on. Sarvam 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 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 necessary skills skills are required and one of the report suggests that if one year of schooling is happening … the 24 % there is output increase in the labour output actually.

Labour can, the output will increase by 24%. And in India we are having these certain issues. If you see what labour 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, Vidya Samhita Kendra 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, but much more. But as Madam was also asking me what will be the impact of AI, I think it will be huge impact on us. Next two years we can see 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 that there is something called payment through the mobiles. And when I was discussing with our CMDs of the banks, those were their 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 in PCI 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 work. For 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 AI. And we are trying to help with them, sir.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

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 raised, 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. 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 a net perspective. So how we have taken the UPI and other things that 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 you 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. startups to come up with solutions which impact the students at large. So I was talking to somebody the other day, and I think the stage server 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 aata, yeh problem nahi hai. Bache ko English nahi samajh mein aata, 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 I was talking to you just before this. He said, India mein aisa nahi hai ki people don’t want to buy technology. People don’t, they’re 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 bighar jayega.

But why are we not seeing the value? 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’ve 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 in 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 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’s obviously a great job of bringing these things together and all the programs that we have, whether it’s Unnati, whether it’s Future for Workforce, whether it’s the stuff that we do in the K -12 space. We’ve got an ISV startup that we work with which is helping teachers become AI -enabled. So creating, 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 as one problem. that is what you also 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 is coming from there, and it’s 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, I don’t know how many of you will relate to this, but at least I used to. When the teacher is teaching, everything was clear. But when you go home and read the same concept, what happened? How did it disappear? So when this happens, and if you’re an introverted child, who do you go and ask? And how do you create that safe 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.

Mere se pucho. And you know as a parent that this is all happening on the PC. It is all safeguarded. Or at least there is lesser chance of hallucination. That is what we are working towards. And I’ll finish with because there are all esteemed panelists, I think I should finish with a quote. Arthur C. Clarke said technology, and I’m paraphrasing, technology done right is like magic. And if we bring that magic of technology plus AI to all kids in India, I think we’ve done our job. That’s what we are doing.

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

Finally a girl raised her hand. She said, okay. At least somebody. She said, yes, come on. We’ll work it together. She said, sir, everything is fine. But firstly tell us what is a tile. 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 test. 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, imagining hierarchical 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, sir. Suresh sir, in the same manner, when you reimagine institutions and you are heading up, you know, you are part of a global body, what kind of feature and what kind of, you know, I will say two or three things you want to see in the future, you know, futuristic educational institution.

Thank you very much. Quickly, three points I would like to say. First, that if you look back 10 years back when social media was in India, there was a talk that whether we want to be a download nation or we want to an upload nation. So there was a lot of emphasis on creating content and uploading on the internet and the media so that creativity flourished. now the conversation has moved whether we want to be again a consumption nation or we want to be producing nation, we want to be creative nations now this time the opportunity is phenomenal so we need to have a system where people create not consume, that’s the fundamental shift we need now the second thing I will say that university degrees masters, PhDs undergrad for the job we have the qualification for the job, in some of the countries only high school is good enough for getting the jobs in the government in the private sector high school diploma do we want only the students to be studying getting marks, getting distinction or do we want the students to be the problem solving young society so I think we have to shift from a you know degree awarding institutions to a problem solving 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 system 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. Thank you. pushing India into a very high growth trajectory and also to realize the dream which I talk about, a number one nation, 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 mind that you think should be the future of a teacher education center?

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 percent assessment will be done through AI. So, it is a very good thing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So AI is going to play an important role, not only as a regulator, but also as a norms and standard 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, CVSC is trying to. Assess class 12 answers script through technology, but those would be only scanned documents. will check by teachers 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 AI in Indian knowledge, Indian context, Indian languages, then we will really solve the next generation. And as the Prime Minister said, we have two AIs, as Pride 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 one 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 the 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 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 these things. 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 are also coming together. 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 startup 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 there, 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.

I think everybody has done a great job of articulating that. I think everybody has done a great job.

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 about it, it will start to grow. And thank you everyone. Thank you.