Lok Sabha Question No. 1704 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-30
Subject: Science and Technology Parks and Innovation Centres
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Shri P C Mohan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1704 ANSWERED ON 30/07/2025

## SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS AND INNOVATION CENTRES

## 1704. SHRI P C MOHAN:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is supporting establishment of Science and Technology Parks and Innovation Centres focused on Artificial Intelligence (Al) and emerging technologies;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  of  such  centres  established  or  supported  by  the Government  during  the  last  five  years,  particularly  in  Karnataka  and Bengaluru, which is a leading hub for Al and digital innovation;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  received  any  proposals  from  the Government  of  Karnataka,  academic  institutions,  or  industry  bodies  in Bengaluru for setting up Al-focused Centres of Excellence, incubators, or R&D clusters;
- (d) if so, the current status of such proposals and the funding or technical support provided by the Government; and
- (e) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to promote collaboration between academia, start-ups, and industry to accelerate Al research  and  application  in  sectors  such  as  healthcare,  agriculture  and governance?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी तथा पृ थ्िी विज्ञान मंत्रालय क े राज्य मंत्री ( स्ितंत्र प्रभार) ( डॉ. जितेंद्र स ंह )

- (a) to (b): Yes Sir, the Government is supporting establishment of Science and  Technology  Parks  and  Innovation  Centres  focused  on  Artificial Intelligence (Al) and emerging technologies.

The Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India is implementing  the  National  Mission  on  Interdisciplinary  Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), with an outlay of Rs. 3,660.00 crore. Under this mission, a project titled 'Bharat-Gen: A Suite of Generative AI Technologies for India' is  being  implemented  with  funding  support  of  Rs  235.17  crore  at  the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) Foundation for IOT and IOE, IIT Bombay. This project is a multimodal, multilingual Large Language Model initiative,

focused  on  developing  efficient  and  inclusive  AI  solutions  in  22  Indian languages.

The DST, under Technology Translation and Innovation (TTI) Division, has also  established  a  Centre  of  Excellence  in  Artificial  Intelligence  and Machine Learning at T-Hub Hyderabad, focused on providing infrastructural, mentoring and incubation support to startups in the field of AI and ML.

The  Ministry  of  Education  has  established  three  Centres  of  Excellence (CoEs)  in  Artificial  Intelligence,  focusing  on  healthcare,  agriculture,  and sustainable cities at IIT  Kanpur, IIT Ropar and IISc Bangalore at a total budget outlay of Rs 990 Cr. In the Union Budget 2025-26, the Government has  also  announced  a  Centre  of  Excellence  in  Al  for  Education  with  a financial outlay of Rs. 500 crores.

In other emerging technologies, under NM-ICPS of DST, 25 TIHs have been established in reputed academic institutions across India. Each TIH has been assigned a technology vertical in the areas of emerging technologies, such as Robotics, Internet of Things (loT) and Internet of Everything (IoE), Cybersecurity, Data Banks & Data Services, Data Analysis and FinTech etc.

The  details  of  the  TIHs  supported  under  the  NM-ICPS,  along  with  their respective technology verticals, are given as under:

|   S. No. | Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs)                               | Host Institute (HI)                                          | Technology Vertical (TV)                                                                                                                                  |
|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I-Hub Foundation                          | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur                     | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning                                                                                                              |
|        2 | TIH Foundation for IOT and IOE                                  | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay                        | Technologies for Internet of Things & Internet of Everything (Implementing the project titled BharatGen: A Suite of Generative AI Technologies for India) |
|        3 | IIIT-H Data I-Hub Foundation                                    | International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad | Data Banks & Data Services, Data Analysis                                                                                                                 |
|        4 | I-HUB for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Innovation Foundation | Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru                        | Robotics & Autonomous Systems                                                                                                                             |

|   S. No. | Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs)                                            | Host Institute (HI)                                                | Technology Vertical (TV)                                         |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        5 | IHUB NTIHAC Foundation                                                       | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur                              | Cyber Security and Cyber Security for Physical Infrastructure    |
|        6 | IHUB Drishti Foundation                                                      | Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur                             | Computer Vision, Augmented and virtual reality                   |
|        7 | Divyasampark IHUB Roorkee for Devices Materials and Technology Foundation    | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee                             | Device Technology and Materials                                  |
|        8 | IIT Patna Vishlesan I-hub Foundation                                         | Indian Institute of Technology Patna                               | Speech, Video & Text Analytics                                   |
|        9 | IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation                                 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras                              | Sensors, Networking, Actuator & controls                         |
|       10 | NMICPS Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation Foundation (TiHAN) | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad                           | Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition systems (UAV, RoVetc) |
|       11 | I-DAPT-HUB Foundation                                                        | Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi | Data Analytics & Predictive Technologies                         |
|       12 | IIT Guwahati Technology Innovation and Development Foundation                | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati                            | Technologies for under water exploration                         |
|       13 | IIT Mandi IHub and HCI Foundation                                            | Indian Institute of Technology Mandi                               | Human Computer Interaction                                       |
|       14 | I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC)                                         | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi                               | Cobotics                                                         |
|       15 | IIT Palakkad Technology Ihub Foundation                                      | Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad                            | Intelligent Collaborative Systems                                |

|   S. No. | Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs)                                      | Host Institute (HI)                                         | Technology Vertical (TV)                               |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
|       16 | IIT Ropar Technology and Innovation Foundation                         | Indian Institute of Technology Ropar                        | Technologies for Agriculture & Water                   |
|       17 | Technology Innovation in Exploration & Mining Foundation               | Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad                      | Technologies for Mining                                |
|       18 | IIITB Comet Foundation                                                 | International Institute of Information Technology Bengaluru | Advanced Communication System                          |
|       19 | BITS BioCYTiH Foundation                                               | Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani              | Bio-Cyber Physical Systems                             |
|       20 | IDEAS- Institute of Data Engineering, Analytics and Science Foundation | Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata                        | Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Data curation etc |
|       21 | IITI Drishti CPS Foundation                                            | Indian Institute of Technology Indore                       | System Simulation, Modelling & Visualization           |
|       22 | IHUB Anubhuti- IIITD Foundation                                        | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi      | Cognitive Computing & Social Censing                   |
|       23 | I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation                                    | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune     | Quantum Technologies                                   |
|       24 | IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation                              | Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati                     | Positioning and Precision Technologies                 |
|       25 | IIT Bhilai Innovation and Technology Foundation                        | Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai                       | Technologies for financial sector (Fintech)            |

Out  of  the  above  25  TIHs,  four  have  been  upgraded  to  Technology Translation Research Parks (TTRPs), with an aim to significantly scale the

translational research, commercialization and industry engagement. Details of the TTRPs are as follows:

|   S. No | Name of the TTRP                                                                | Focus Area of the TTRP                            |
|---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | IITI Drishti CPS Foundation, IIT Indore                                         | Digital Healthcare                                |
|       2 | I-HUB for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Innovation Foundation, IISc Bangalore | Robotics & AI Systems                             |
|       3 | IHUB NTIHAC Foundation, IIT Kanpur                                              | Cybersecurity                                     |
|       4 | Technology Innovation in Exploration& Mining Foundation, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad      | Mining (Exploration to Beneficiation of Minerals) |

The  Department  of  Atomic  Energy  (DAE)  has  established  four Atal Incubation  Centres  namely  AIC-BARC-ANUSHAKTI,  AIC  RRCAT  PI-HUB Foundation, AIC-IGCAR-FAST Foundation and AIC-IPR Plasmatech Innovation Foundation focusing, which will focus on technology translation and commercialization of deeptech innovations to startups and industries.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has established a world-class Innovation Complex (CSIR-IC) at Mumbai, with fully equipped and  ready-to-move  incubation  labs  and  business-development  support  to the start-ups, MSMEs, deep-tech companies, CSIR and other public-funded research institutions. Additionally, a technology incubation centreFoundation  for  Aerospace  Innovation,  Research  and  Entrepreneurship (FAIRE)  has  been  established  at  CSIR-National  Aerospace  Laboratories (CSIR-NAL),  Bengaluru  by  National  Research  Development  Corporation (NRDC), in association with Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE) to promote start-ups in the area of aerospace.

(c) to (d): Under DST, NM-ICPS has received proposals from IISc Bangalore and IIIT Bangalore for establishment of two TIHs namely, I-HUB for Robotics and  Autonomous  Systems  Innovation  Foundation  at  IISc  Bangalore  and IIITB  Comet  Foundation,  which  have  been  supported  with  a  funding  of ₹114.25 crore and ₹107.89 crore respectively. Although not fully focused on AI, the technology verticals of the two TIHs have AI components therein.

Under  the  National  Initiative  for  Developing  and  Harnessing  Innovations (NIDHI)  program,  DST  has  established  Inclusive  Technology  Business Incubators (iTBI) across Karnataka to promote S&T-based entrepreneurship in the area of Artificial Intelligence and related technologies, one such iTBI namely  BLDE  Foundation  for  Innovation  has  been  established  at  BLDE (Deemed  to  be  University),  Karnataka,  with  Medical  Devices,  Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Machine learning in Healthcare, Digital HealtheHealth, mHealth, Regenerative Medicine as its thrust areas with funding support of Rs 1.95 crores.

(e) The Government is making concerted efforts and has initiated several steps as detailed above to promote collaboration between academia, startups, and industry to accelerate Al research and application in sectors such as  healthcare,  agriculture,  governance  under  various  missions/schemes such as DST's NM-ICPS & NIDHI, CoEs of Ministry of Education, Dept of Atomic Energy, CSIR, etc.

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