{"id":989629,"date":"2026-02-04T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989629"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:26:23","slug":"ai-plan-collides-with-funding-reality-as-budget-halves-outlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/ai-plan-collides-with-funding-reality-as-budget-halves-outlay\/","title":{"rendered":"AI plan collides with funding reality as budget halves outlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The budget decision to halve allocation for the IndiaAI Mission to \u20b91,000 crore in 2026-27 from \u20b92,000 crore this fiscal year has raised concerns over the country\u2019s AI push, even as officials said it\u2019s part of a deliberate strategy. <\/p>\n<p>Experts said building meaningful artificial intelligence capacity will require significantly higher and more sustained public investment, and warned that India risks falling behind in the global AI race if government funding does not scale up. <\/p>\n<p>Building large-scale compute infrastructure, high-quality datasets and AI-driven applications across sectors is capital-intensive, they noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The budget decision to halve allocation for the IndiaAI Mission to \u20b91,000 crore in 2026-27 from \u20b92,000 crore this fiscal year has raised concerns over the country\u2019s AI push, even as officials said it\u2019s part of a deliberate strategy. Experts said building meaningful artificial intelligence capacity will require significantly higher and more sustained public investment, and warned that India risks falling behind in the global AI race if government funding does not scale up. Building large-scale compute infrastructure, high-quality datasets and AI-driven applications across sectors is capital-intensive, they noted.<\/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-989629","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\/989629","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=989629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}