{"id":989100,"date":"2026-02-02T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989100"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:13:49","slug":"union-budget-2026-27-cutting-edge-tech-ai-applications-can-enhance-governance-says-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/union-budget-2026-27-cutting-edge-tech-ai-applications-can-enhance-governance-says-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget 2026-27: Cutting-edge tech, AI applications can enhance governance, says Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget on Sunday, said artificial intelligence (AI) applications can improve governance in India. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cutting-edge technologies, including AI applications, can serve us as force multipliers for better governance,&#8221; Sitharaman said in her Union Budget 2026-27 speech. <\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister is presenting her ninth consecutive Budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget on Sunday, said artificial intelligence (AI) applications can improve governance in India. &#8220;Cutting-edge technologies, including AI applications, can serve us as force multipliers for better governance,&#8221; Sitharaman said in her Union Budget 2026-27 speech. The Finance Minister is presenting her ninth consecutive Budget.<\/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-989100","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\/989100","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=989100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}