The Ministry of Ayush and the IndiaAI Mission (under MeitY) signed an MoU on 31 July 2026 to expand AI use in research, digital health, capacity building, medicinal plants, and drug administration for traditional medicine systems.
Under the MoU, Ayush will onboard the AIKosh platform to share datasets, metadata, AI models, and toolkits, and get access to subsidised GPU-based high-performance computing.
The IndiaAI Innovation Challenge 2026, in partnership with the Ministry of Ayush, invites market-ready AI solutions for Ayush-linked public health challenges, with pilot support and potential government contracts.
Ayush covers five traditional medicine systems: Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy.
A platform within the IndiaAI ecosystem for structured, shared access to AI-related resources — datasets, metadata, AI models, and toolkits — enabling ministries and researchers to collaborate on AI applications using common infrastructure.
Simple Analogy: A shared public library of AI datasets and tools that different government departments can borrow from, rather than each building from scratch.
GS Paper III > AI Governance, Health
Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy