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Odisha Cabinet approves Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025

Bhubaneswar, May 28 (UNI) The Odisha Cabinet on Wednesday night approved the Odisha Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025.
Briefing newspersons after the meeting, Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja said it would be a significant milestone in the state’s journey toward harnessing the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to improve governance, stimulate innovation, enhance data‑driven decision‑making, and enable inclusive socio‑economic development.
The policy, part of Odisha’s broader digital‑transformation agenda, aims to embed AI across sectors by promoting responsible, secure, and scalable adoption of AI technologies.
Ahuja said it outlines a clear roadmap built around four foundational pillars:AI Infrastructure, Skills Development, Energy and Regulatory Frameworks
The policy provides a strategic blueprint for facilitating high‑end compute capacity, enabling access to large open datasets, fostering industry‑academia collaboration, and ensuring sustainable, green AI deployment.
A key highlight is the creation of the Odisha AI Mission, the apex institutional mechanism tasked with implementing AI initiatives across departments, coordinating pilot projects, developing use cases, and supporting public agencies, startups, and academic institutions.
The Mission will operate under a two‑tiered governance structure—a high‑level AI Taskforce and an AI Cell housed at the Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC)—to drive cross‑sectoral AI adoption and accelerate use‑case deployment.
The policy also identifies high‑impact AI use cases in critical sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, education, climate change and disaster management, and governance.
These include AI‑assisted disease prediction and screening, Smart irrigation and crop diagnostics, Multilingual AI tools for personalised education, Predictive disaster‑response systems and Intelligent citizen‑engagement platforms
In line with global standards, the policy places strong emphasis on the ethical and responsible deployment of AI.
It proposes robust data‑governance frameworks and institutional safeguards to prevent misuse, bias, or harm, and commits to aligning Odisha’s AI development with national and international best practices for trusted and secure AI.
With this policy, the Chief Secretary said Odisha seeks to position itself as a leading hub for AI‑led public innovation, AI startups, and export‑ready AI solutions.
The notification of the policy is expected to catalyse the state’s emerging AI ecosystem and strengthen its alignment with the objectives of the India AI Mission across compute, skills, and data domains. UNI DP SSP
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