Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said that the state is positioning itself to lead India’s artificial intelligence revolution through a combination of policy support, startup ecosystem development and rapid deployment of AI across government services.
The CM was speaking at the Mumbai Tech Week 2026 today. He informed that Maharashtra has created a robust policy under which we are looking at attracting ₹10,000 crore of investment in AI and creating around 1.5 lakh jobs. He added that the state government wants to establish six Centres of Excellence around AI and create AI Innovation Regions across the state. He further informed that to support AI innovation, the state is creating a Compute-as-a-Service facility that will provide access to 2,000 GPUs for startups, innovators and researchers.
Fadnavis said that Maharashtra has begun deploying the technology across agriculture, policing, healthcare, urban administration and disaster management. He cited MahaVISTAAR-AI, an AI-powered platform developed by the Agriculture Department that provides farmers with crop advice, weather information and access to government schemes.
The CM mentioned that another initiative is MahaCrimeOS AI, built with the help of Microsoft, digitises criminal investigations and helps police analyse evidence, prepare documents and improve case management. “Traditionally, preparing a chargesheet could take months. Now, much of that work can happen simultaneously during the investigation process, significantly reducing timelines,” he said.
He said that the state is also using AI-powered systems for building plan approvals, government HR management, healthcare fraud detection, traffic management and disaster prediction. “You name the sector, and the government has started using AI.
