Since 2020, Rocket Learning has used WhatsApp to deliver early-learning content to India's Anganwadi childcare network, training 1.3 million childcare workers and …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
Telangana's T-Hub, a state-backed innovation campus in Hyderabad launched in 2015, reports 4,100+ startups supported and $2bn+ funding facilitated. These are T-Hub's …
Microsoft Research India and Sikshana Foundation built an AI copilot that drafts curriculum-aligned lesson plans in Kannada/English for Karnataka government-school teachers in …
Microsoft Research India tool, co-designed with Sikshana Foundation, cut lesson-planning time from 60–90 min to 60–90 sec for 1,043 Karnataka public school …
Breakthrough's Bell Bajao! campaign mobilised bystanders across India to interrupt domestic violence; reaching over 130 million people, it was linked to a …
India's DAY-NRLM sub-scheme has sanctioned 84 projects across 24 states, targeting 3 million+ women farmers. A Nielsen study found 1.3x higher agricultural …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 55%63/100
A Stanford–World Bank field experiment gave free Accenture management consulting to 17 Indian textile firms; treated plants raised productivity by 11% within …
Tarapur, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%60/100
I-Stem's AI platform converts STEM documents, exams and textbooks into screen-reader-accessible formats at 92% accuracy. Used by IIT Delhi, Ashoka University and …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 46%60/100
India's National Statistical Office launched a public Model Context Protocol server letting AI assistants query official economic and social statistics in plain …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
India's first Plan Vivo-certified community forest carbon project: 27,000 ha of subtropical broadleaf forest in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. Since 2011: 532,000+ …
After India's 2012 data-sharing policy, the National Informatics Centre built data.gov.in to publish non-classified government data nationwide. By 2026 it hosted over …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 74%57/100
India's Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship has funded the return of 312 overseas life scientists since 2007, with 203 absorbed into Indian faculty positions …
Faridabad, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 74%57/100
A randomized experiment gave free Accenture consulting to 20 Mumbai textile plants; adopting standard management practices raised productivity 11% in year one …
Mumbai, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 74%57/100
In October 2025 Union Bank of India launched Union SPARSH, marketed as India's first Braille-embossed credit card: Braille lettering, a tactile orientation …
Mumbai, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 68%56/100
Since FY2005-06, India's Union Budget has published a Gender Budget Statement classifying spending by share benefiting women. It reached 8.86% of the …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 40%53/100
SCERT Maharashtra and the Kotak Education Foundation's 'AI Saathi' course -- a four-hour, Marathi module folded into the state's mandatory 20-hour annual …