Maharashtra govt to create AI Innovation Regions across the state
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today 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 today. He informed that
Maharashtra has created a robust policy under which we are looking at
attracting ₹10,000 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.
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.
The CM mentioned that another initiative is MahaCrimeOS AI, built with the
help of Microsoft, digitises criminal investigations and helps police
analyse evidence, prepare documents and improve case management.
“Traditionally, preparing a chargesheet could take months. Now, much of
that work can happen simultaneously during the investigation process,
significantly reducing timelines,” he said.
He said that the state is also using AI-powered systems for building plan
approvals, government HR management, healthcare fraud detection, traffic
management and disaster prediction. “You name the sector, and the
government has started using AI.