India Embeds AI Into National Infrastructure

India's Union Budget 2026 positions artificial intelligence and generative AI as national economic infrastructure, announcing large-scale public deployments, extended data-centre tax incentives to 2047, and a roughly ₹40,000 crore Semiconductor Mission 2.0 fund. It also creates Bharat VISTAR for multilingual agricultural advisories, unifies IT services taxation, and boosts AI education and skilling, enabling startups and public-sector deployments at scale.