Maharashtra govt to create AI innovation regions across the state

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said that the state is positioning itself to lead India’s artificial intelligence revolution through a combination of policy support, startup ecosystem development and rapid deployment of AI across government services. The CM was speaking at the Mumbai Tech Week 2026 on Friday. He informed that Maharashtra has created a robust policy under which we are looking at attracting Rs10,000 crore of investment in AI and creating around 1.5 lakh jobs. He added that the state government wants to establish six Centres of Excellence around AI and create AI Innovation Regions across the state. He further informed that to support AI innovation, the state is creating a Compute-as-a-Service facility that will provide access to 2,000 GPUs for startups, innovators and researchers.

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Fadnavis said that Maharashtra has begun deploying the technology across agriculture, policing, healthcare, urban administration and disaster management. He cited MahaVISTAAR-AI, an AI-powered platform developed by the Agriculture Department that provides farmers with crop advice, weather information and access to government schemes.