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AI Saathi for Educators -- Maharashtra Makes AI Literacy Training Compulsory for 750,000 Teachers

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 40% 53/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

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 teacher training requirement -- reaches roughly 7.5 lakh (750,000) teachers and officials across Grades 1-12.

~750,000
Teachers and officials targeted
AI Saathi for Educators -- Maharashtra Makes AI Literacy Training Compulsory for 750,000 Teachers

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
SCERT Maharashtra & Kotak Education Foundation
Period
Launched July 2026
Keywords
Teacher professional development, AI literacy, public education policy

Context

Launched 14 July 2026 by Maharashtra's School Education Minister Dadaji Bhuse, 'AI Saathi for Educators' is a self-paced, Marathi-language course on the national DIKSHA platform, made the first compulsory module in Maharashtra's mandatory 20-hour annual teacher-training framework, targeting close to 7.5 lakh (750,000) teachers and officials across Grades 1-12.

Results

The course follows a three-tier Basic-Intermediate-Advanced structure: AI fundamentals and prompt-writing, inquiry-based/personalised instruction, and an advanced tier on ethical AI use for educators leading school-level AI initiatives. SCERT states it will track participation and completion through DIKSHA's online monitoring system.

Conclusions

The launch and its scale are independently corroborated by Indian education and CSR media; as of this report, no outcome or completion data has been published -- the practice is documented at launch stage, not yet on measured learning or teaching-practice change.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
SCERT Maharashtra, Kotak Education Foundation

Conditions for success

  • compulsory integration into the state's mandatory 20-hour annual teacher-training framework
  • three-tier Basic-Intermediate-Advanced course structure with an ethics module

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