AI-led efficiencies can contribute to eight% GDP development goal: NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog launched a report on Monday (September 15, 2025) asserting that Artificial Intelligence-led efficiencies in industries might be key in contributing to an annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) development fee of 8% within the coming years.

“Accelerating AI adoption throughout industries to enhance productiveness and effectivity” may bridge “30–35% of the hole” between the present fee of development and the 8% goal,” the report stated.

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The report says particular person industries should leverage AI to introduce efficiencies; candidates which might be primed for this, the report says, embody prescription drugs, manufacturing, cars and monetary providers.

AI has decreased “the price of producing the following molecule [for the pharmaceutical industry] by roughly 10 instances and crashed the time that it takes — roughly 10 years — by roughly 50%,” Koshir Daka, a senior accomplice at McKinsey stated on the report launch, including that this might give India a gap to invent a clutch of medicine at a world stage within the close to future.

The launch is amongst a collection of occasions constructing as much as February 2026’s AI Impact Summit, to be hosted by India. The summit follows the AI Action Summit in Paris and related gatherings in Bletchley Park within the U.Okay. and in Seoul.

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“The impression that AI can have, not simply on India’s financial system however the international financial system, is so profound and so vital that we have to take the management place on this space,” IT Secretary S. Krishnan stated.

Skilling staff whose roles are threatened by AI is vital, the report says, recommending “mapping job shifts yearly, embedding lifelong studying into profession pathways, scaling MSME digital upskilling, and defending gig and platform staff.”

Former Nasscom president and NITI Aayog distinguished fellow Debjani Ghosh stated in an interview with The Hindu that “you’ll want to have a long run plan” on AI, and that “it may possibly’t be a response to what the remainder of the world is doing.”

“NITI Aayog consults a number of Union Ministries by its Executive and Strategy Councils to form that planning,” Ms. Ghosh stated. “We’ve known as out very particular suggestions on what must occur with the intention to unlock productiveness in these sectors.”

The assume tank additionally launched a Frontier Tech Hub, a repository of current impression of technological interventions in numerous domains comparable to agriculture and training. Ms. Ghosh stated the hope was to get extra aspirational districts and aspirational blocks to see what sort of interventions they’ll apply to, as an example, attain higher outcomes in training.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated on the occasion that extra States wanted to benefit from the federal government’s funding for equipping the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), current in each district, to upskill youth in AI.