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IIIT Hyderabad’s Pivotal Role in BharatGen: Leading India’s Push for Sovereign AI and Indic LLMs

IIIT Hyderabad is driving BharatGen’s sovereign AI mission with Indic Vision-Language Models like Patram and eVikrAI, backed by Rs. 988.6 crore from MeitY to build multi-language AI for India. India’s sovereign AI efforts received a major boost with the government-backed BharatGen initiative, supported by Rs. 988.6 crore from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Among the academic partners in the consortium, the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) is playing a central role in advancing Indic Vision-Language Models (VLMs).BharatGen is led by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). It brings together institutions including IIITH, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIM Indore, and IIT Madras. The initiative is designed to build India-specific solutions that make AI accessible across multiple Indian languages, addressing the country’s linguistic diversity.

Sahithi Kukkala, MS student, supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and co-supervised by Dr. Mitesh Khapra, IIT Madras – AI4Bhāra and Oikantik Nath, Ph.D scholar, IIT Madras received the Best Student Paper  Runner-Up Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on IndicDLP: A Foundational Dataset for Multi-Lingual and Multi-Domain Document Layout Parsing. ICDAR, the flagship document understanding conference, was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September. 

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through  various rounds.    Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0

Rohan Kumar, B.Tech, alumni and Jyothi Swaroopa Jinka, MS student  supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla received the Best Student Paper Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on TexTAR – Textual Attribute Recognition in Multi-domain and Multi-lingual Document Images. ICDAR, the flagship document understanding conference, was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September 2025.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through  various rounds.    Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0

NAMS–IIITH Orientation Course on AI for Medical Professionals Concludes Successfully

The 2nd Edition of the Orientation Course on AI for Medical Professionals, jointly organized by NAMS, iHub-Data, and IIITH, concluded on September 21 with a day-long offline valedictory session held simultaneously in Delhi and Hyderabad. Launched on June 15, this 12-week program introduced 110 participants from India, the U.S., the U.K., Romania, Cambodia, and the UAE to the fundamentals and applications of AI in healthcare. Delivered through pre-recorded lectures, live Q&A sessions, tutorials, and no-code AI demonstrations, the course simplified complex AI concepts for medical professionals from non-technical backgrounds. The valedictory session featured the Course Report by Prof. Bapi Raju, closing remarks by Prof. Sandeep Shukla, Director, IIIT Hyderabad, and Padma Shri Dr. D. Behera, President, NAMS, along with addresses by Padma Shri Dr. Yogesh Chawla and Prof. Y.K. Gupta, Principal Advisor, GARDP. Certificates will be jointly issued by NAMS, iHub-Data, and IIIT Hyderabad.

Truth Without Apology by Sri. Acharya Prashant (27 September 2025)

The Student Life Committee (SLC) in coordination with Outreach organised a special talk Truth Without Apology by renowned philosopher and author, Sri. Acharya Prashant b 27 September at KRB Auditorium.

Acharya Prashant is a globally renowned philosopher, social reformer, and national bestselling author of over 160 books. An IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, he has been honoured with prestigious awards for his contributions to philosophy, social reform, and environmentalism. With over 90 million followers worldwide, he is recognised as one of the most impactful spiritual voices of our time.