Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced during his August 15, 2026 Independence Day address from the Red Fort that the government will train over 10 million young Indians in artificial intelligence skills over the coming year, a tenfold increase over an earlier one-million-youth commitment. Modi framed the initiative as central to India’s goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047. The speech was also live-translated into 22 Indian languages using Bhashini, a government-built open-source AI translation platform, marking the first time an Independence Day address was processed through a national-scale AI translation pipeline.
