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My Career Advisor — India's National AI-Matched Career Guidance App

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India's Ministry of Education launched the free 'My Career Advisor' app on 29 July 2025, using AI to match students' aptitude to 1,500+ career paths. Built with NCERT-PSSCIVE and the Wadhwani Foundation, it was adopted by Rajasthan's government within six months.

1,500+ career options
Career paths covered
My Career Advisor — India's National AI-Matched Career Guidance App

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Ministry of Education, Government of India / NCERT-PSSCIVE / Wadhwani Foundation
Period
Launched 29 July 2025 – ongoing
Keywords
career guidance, student counselling, AI recommendation, NEP 2020, administration

Context

On 29 July 2025, during the fifth-anniversary celebrations of India's National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the Ministry of Education launched 'My Career Advisor', a free mobile app built with NCERT's PSSCIVE wing and the Wadhwani Foundation. It targets students in Grades 6-12 as well as their parents, teachers and school counsellors.

Activities

The app uses AI to generate personalised, aptitude- and interest-based career pathway recommendations across more than 1,500 documented career options, with shareable reports and preparation guides, available on Android and iOS. Within six months of the national launch, Rajasthan's state government began promoting the app through its own education department for students in Classes 9-12.

Conclusions

As of mid-2026, no independent evaluation of the app's effect on students' subject choices, course completion or employment outcomes has been published, and the Ministry has not released usage or download figures; the impact case rests on stated design intent rather than measured results.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Built as a public-private partnership (Ministry, NCERT-PSSCIVE, Wadhwani Foundation); no separate government budget figure disclosed; offered free to end users.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Launched 29 July 2025; Rajasthan state adoption followed within six months; too early (under one year) for outcome evaluation.
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Education (India) programme team, NCERT-PSSCIVE technical/content staff, Wadhwani Foundation technical development team, School counsellors and teachers as in-app referral points

Conditions for success

  • Sustained free access on Android and iOS without added cost to families
  • Active promotion by state education departments (as Rajasthan has done) to drive uptake
  • Publishing usage/download data and eventually outcome evaluation to validate design intent

Common failure modes

  • No independent evaluation of effects on subject choice, retention or outcomes published as of mid-2026
  • No usage or download figures released, limiting accountability
  • Risk that adoption remains uneven across states without central mandate

Where it fits

Governance type
national government ministry with NGO/foundation partnership
Scale
national, with early state-level (Rajasthan) adoption
Income level
lower-middle-income

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National / regional programmes Philanthropic / foundation funding

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