Nandan Nikaleni thanked PM Narendra Modi on a fantastic summit.
He met the PM on 08 Jan '26 and had talked about applying AI to farmers. The PM talked about applying AI to farmers, he said, "Why can't we apply it to cows and cattle? Because if the cow is sick, it can't tell you that it's sick, it can't tell you that it is sick. How can you solve this problem? And he gave us his vision of applying AI to agriculture and dairy.
On the same day, the PMO had a meeting along with Mr Krishnan and Abhishek of MeitY, with Amul and with some of my colleagues and within three weeks, the application went live.
The meeting was on 08 Jan and it went live on 11 Feb.
This is the world's largest co-operative with 3.6 million farmers, 2 billion milk transactions per year and 40 million cattle.
And today all these farmers, a large number of them being women, use the Saral app to get real responses about their cattle , the problems, the pregnancy, their milk production and so on. Look at the speed of diffusion An idea that the PM had on 08 Jan had become reality on 11 Feb. This to me is an example of the speed of execution of AI diffusion in India.
And I get the same sense of excitement I got on 30 Dec 2016, when the PM launched the BHIM payment application on UPI. And when he launched that application, he started something where today we have 21 billion transactions a month with 500 million users and the world's largest payment system. I feel the same sense that AI is at that point, and with his leadership and vision of how AI can be used for the benefit of Indians, common man, farmers, workers and so on, I think it's going to really take off.
Moreover, this is also for sovereign data. The data of Amul remains with Amul, and design is to make sure that it's within India. So, it's really a great and I think by the time many of these people come back in a few months, there will be many, more applications, and India will lead the world on showing how AI diffusion can matter to improve the lives of the common man, farmers, students, patients and so on. And I think this is where the AI road, the race to the top, is going to happen. And thank you for your leadership, sir".
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