Glad to be quoted by @TheKenWeb on @GoI_MeitY's relationship with AI vendors and @GoIStats's latest MCP server connected to their statistical datasets. Read: the-ken.com/story/indias-ai-… Story is that @HiSohan and I were using the MoSPI data to make some clinical estimates for Chapters 1 and 2 of the UP.AIACT.IN Report 2026. Turns out the data retrieved lacked granularity needed for effective district-level analysis that we had to do. Read the story. It's genuinely good. cc @NoidaUpdatesX @theupindex @KanpurUpdates @deepanshuS27 @indicpacific @adityajakki

Finally, I am glad to announce that the UP.AIACT.IN Report 2026 is officially public :) You can download the report at up.aiact.in. This is India's first AI Industry Diffusion Report for the state of Uttar Pradesh, developed by @indicpacific and the @IndianSocietyAI. The editorial support of @adityajakki, Ayushi Agarwal and Nisha Singh was truly helpful and I wish Aditya explains his experience as an editor. The forewords of this report were authored by: Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Vice Chancellor, @nalanda_univ Prof. Pitabas Mohanty, Professor, XLRI Jamshedpur @RupakChatto, @ForumFed authored the Introduction to this Report. We are eternally grateful to the 28 contributing authors, (tagging those who are on X), @_AkashBansal_, @deepanshuS27, Sunil Khemka, Dr @mnwsth, @Smita_Srinivas ji, Bogdan Grigorescu, Simrin Kapoor, @theachyuttiwari, @ravishar313, @HiSohan, @SaiyamPathak, Sagar Singamsetty, Rupal Mathur, Swastik Grover, Prathik Karthikeyan, @AKLKO1977, representatives from @Artha__Global, Saanjh Shekhar, Sonal Shah and many others. Why is this Report so special to us? This is the first-of-its-kind report developed on AI industry diffusion challenges, focusing on Central India, which remains a rather untapped and unaddressed region. Uttar Pradesh is at the heart of it. UP's growth is also subject to how its industrial history realities are understood on all counts - R&D, talent scales, resources and the role of government in AI investments.