{"id":1009393,"date":"2026-05-22T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009393"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:01:02","slug":"kerala-first-to-have-dedicated-ai-portfolio-as-states-push-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/kerala-first-to-have-dedicated-ai-portfolio-as-states-push-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala first to have dedicated AI portfolio as states push artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala government has become the first state to create a portfolio exclusively dedicated to artificial intelligence, to be managed by senior IUML leader P.K. Kunhalikutty. <\/p>\n<p>The Kerala government on Wednesday released the official gazette notification detailing the allocation of portfolios among the 20 ministers in the Congress-led United Democratic Front government. The AI portfolio has been allocated to Kunhalikutty, who is also in charge of industries, IT and start-ups. Kunhalikutty had held the IT portfolio since 2001 in the A.K. Antony and Oommen Chandy-led governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala government has become the first state to create a portfolio exclusively dedicated to artificial intelligence, to be managed by senior IUML leader P.K. Kunhalikutty. The Kerala government on Wednesday released the official gazette notification detailing the allocation of portfolios among the 20 ministers in the Congress-led United Democratic Front government. The AI portfolio has been allocated to Kunhalikutty, who is also in charge of industries, IT and start-ups. Kunhalikutty had held the IT portfolio since 2001 in the A.K. Antony and Oommen Chandy-led governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009435,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009393\/revisions\/1009435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}