{"id":989220,"date":"2026-02-02T08:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989220"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:31:27","slug":"centre-keeps-up-push-for-ai-tech-integration-in-education-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/centre-keeps-up-push-for-ai-tech-integration-in-education-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre keeps up push for AI, tech integration in education sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s announcement in the Union Budget 2026\u201327 on Sunday about the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is not the Central government\u2019s first effort to integrate emerging technologies into the sector. In the Budget 2025\u201326, the Centre allocated Rs 500 crore for the setting up of a Centre of Excellence for the purpose. <\/p>\n<p>The government wants the integration of AI and other emerging technologies into the curricula, supported by large-scale rollout of e-content labs. The Union government has been working on promoting AI across various sectors in the past five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s announcement in the Union Budget 2026\u201327 on Sunday about the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is not the Central government\u2019s first effort to integrate emerging technologies into the sector. In the Budget 2025\u201326, the Centre allocated Rs 500 crore for the setting up of a Centre of Excellence for the purpose. The government wants the integration of AI and other emerging technologies into the curricula, supported by large-scale rollout of e-content labs. The Union government has been working on promoting AI across various sectors in the past five years.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989220","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=989220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}