Hyderabad: Chief Minister Revanth Reddy urged the Prime Minister to establish an India AI Council as a supreme national authority on the lines of the GST Council and NITI Aayog.
He made the demand at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 at Hall–B, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. According to him, the proposed national body must anchor artificial intelligence policy and define long-term priorities.
Further, he said the council should align the Centre and the States under a single framework. It must assign accountability and monitor implementation across sectors.
In addition, he sought a dedicated AI Ministry to work alongside the proposed council. The ministry, he said, must frame legal safeguards against misuse, especially in matters of national security and national interest.
At the same time, he said artificial intelligence must advance social justice and poverty eradication. He invited global leaders and technology experts to partner with Telangana in AI development.
Moreover, he announced readiness to establish an AI Startup Village for the nation with Union government support. He also proposed a National AI Fund to back startups and strengthen innovation under a coordinated national mechanism.
He argued that annual deliberations were inadequate in a fast-evolving technological era. Therefore, he proposed biannual AI summits in different Indian cities to sustain policy momentum.
India AI Council to steer AI value chain strategy
Outlining five strategic priorities, he said the India AI Council must guide leadership across the AI value chain. This included chip manufacturing, green energy and data storage.
It also covered platforms, core languages, applications and services. He called for a clear roadmap, particularly for the top three layers, with structured national oversight.
Further, he proposed a national AI War Room involving both the Centre and the States. He offered Hyderabad as the host city to strengthen coordination.
He also called for a world-class, adequately funded AI University with campuses across India dedicated to original research. In addition, he pressed for urgent domestic manufacturing of GPU chips and integration into the AI supply chain, including access to rare minerals.
At the same time, he emphasised comprehensive reskilling strategies so that AI creates more jobs than it displaces. He said institutional direction would be critical to balance growth and employment.
Placing artificial intelligence in historical perspective, he said transformative inventions such as fire, the wheel, agriculture, democracy, constitutional governance, electricity, aviation, vaccinations and the internet reshaped civilisation. However, he argued that AI marked a defining shift because advanced GPU-powered systems now analyse, decide, create and act with growing autonomy, especially when combined with robotics.
He cautioned that a global AI race was already underway and concentrated among a few nations and corporations. India, he said, had missed earlier industrial revolutions and, despite progress in services, remained largely a service provider.
Widely used services such as Google Search and Maps, Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram, X, YouTube and WhatsApp were not created in India, he noted. Therefore, he said, the India AI Council would help ensure that the country does not miss the AI revolution and instead emerges as a global leader.
In the backdrop of the rapid and transformative advancements in #ArtificialIntelligence, the Hon’ble Chief Minister, @revanth_anumula, urged the Hon’ble Prime Minister to establish an India AI Council as a supreme national body on the lines of the GST Council and NITI Aayog.… pic.twitter.com/N0tduEeZgS
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) February 20, 2026