In a step aimed at transforming school education in India, Bodhan AI announced the launch of its AI Literacy for Teachers, a national-scale program aimed at training over 1 million teachers in artificial intelligence for everyday teaching by 2027.
Bodhan AI is a Centre of Excellence in AI for education incubated at IIT Madras.
The initiative is designed to reimagine how teaching is delivered in classrooms, positioning AI not as an add-on tool, but as a core teacher assistant embedded across lesson planning, content creation, assessments and student feedback systems.
It will be rolled out in phases, undertaking pre-pilots and pilots through the coming months, leading to the launch of the first public cohort on Teachers’ Day (September 5) and scaling to 1 million teachers by 2027.
Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, added, “As AI begins to reshape education, building AI literacy among teachers becomes foundational to ensuring meaningful adoption. This initiative demonstrates how AI can be integrated into everyday teaching practices enabling teachers to enhance pedagogy, improve efficiency and deliver better learning outcomes at scale.”
Dr Mitesh Khapra, principal investigator, Bodhan AI, said, “Our goal is simple but ambitious to make AI a trusted co-pilot for every teacher in India. This program moves beyond awareness to real, daily usage helping teachers save time, improve instructional quality and focus more on what truly matters: student engagement and learning.”
The program addresses one of the most pressing challenges in education today-teacher workload and classroom diversity.
By enabling teachers to use AI for routine and high-effort tasks such as lesson planning, worksheet generation, multilingual content delivery and evaluation, the initiative is expected to reduce teacher workload, improve consistency and quality of teaching materials and enable more personalised and data-driven learning experiences.
Rather than fragmented tool usage, the program introduces a structured AI-integrated teaching workflow, ensuring scalable adoption across central, state and government-supported schools.
Aligned with the broader Bharat EduAI stack vision of Bodhan AI, the program focuses on capabilities such as AI-driven lesson planning and content generation, automated assessment (including handwritten evaluation), multilingual translation and communication tools, AI-assisted administrative workflows and student-facing AI tutors for guided learning.
