{"id":993245,"date":"2026-02-18T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993245"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:12:37","slug":"india-ai-impact-summit-2026-centre-seeks-to-make-every-citizen-ai-ready-says-pemmasani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/india-ai-impact-summit-2026-centre-seeks-to-make-every-citizen-ai-ready-says-pemmasani\/","title":{"rendered":"India AI Impact Summit 2026: Centre seeks to make every citizen AI-ready, says Pemmasani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre is prioritising to connect every village with high-speed internet, and make every citizen artificial intelligence (AI)-ready, said Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority has always been unambiguous \u2013 connect every village. Make every citizen AI-ready. Our fastest 5G rollout, fiberisation of over 70% of towers, and $17 billion investment in last-mile initiatives like BharatNet are not mere upgrades. They are instruments of nation-building,\u201d Pemmasani said on the second day of the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre is prioritising to connect every village with high-speed internet, and make every citizen artificial intelligence (AI)-ready, said Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani on Tuesday. \u201cOur priority has always been unambiguous \u2013 connect every village. Make every citizen AI-ready. Our fastest 5G rollout, fiberisation of over 70% of towers, and $17 billion investment in last-mile initiatives like BharatNet are not mere upgrades. They are instruments of nation-building,\u201d Pemmasani said on the second day of the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026.<\/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-993245","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\/993245","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=993245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}