{"id":1014174,"date":"2026-06-13T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014174"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:28:52","slug":"karnataka-approves-50-ai-labs-in-government-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/karnataka-approves-50-ai-labs-in-government-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka approves 50 AI labs in government colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka has approved the establishment of 50 artificial intelligence (AI) labs in government colleges across the state. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative, announced in the 2026-27 budget, aims to expand access to emerging tech skills and improve employability among students in tier 2 and tier 3 cities, the government said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future of employment will be shaped by technology and opportunities to acquire such skills must be accessible beyond major urban centres\u2019\u2019, Karnataka IT\/BT minister Priyank Kharge said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka has approved the establishment of 50 artificial intelligence (AI) labs in government colleges across the state. The initiative, announced in the 2026-27 budget, aims to expand access to emerging tech skills and improve employability among students in tier 2 and tier 3 cities, the government said in a statement. &#8220;The future of employment will be shaped by technology and opportunities to acquire such skills must be accessible beyond major urban centres\u2019\u2019, Karnataka IT\/BT minister Priyank Kharge said in the statement.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014174","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=1014174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014202,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014174\/revisions\/1014202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}