Now, artificial intelligence to help spread access to govt schemes

Beneficiaries will be prompted to join other schemes on meeting criteria

The government is planning to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to spread the reach of government schemes.

It has prepared a blueprint for the next phase of accelerated digitisation of public services by powering it with AI to help citizens find government schemes they are entitled to.
 

Currently, citizens can access details of only the schemes they have signed up for. “The vision now is to enable citizens to discover what other schemes they are entitled to,” said a senior official of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), adding that this was consistent with the “overall idea to have a