Scindia Opens ITU AI for Good Lab Workshop at IMC 2026

The correct answer is the Department of Telecommunications and the International Telecommunication Union. The workshop was organised jointly by the department, which sits in the Ministry of Communications, and the Union, and was inaugurated by Jyotiraditya M. Scindia at India Mobile Congress 2026 in New Delhi. Options A, C and D are wrong because none of those pairings is named as the organiser; they are offered as plausible combinations of Indian bodies and international agencies. Dr Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the Union, and Amit Agrawal, Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications, were among those present. The minister described the Lab’s move from Geneva to New Delhi as mirroring the path artificial intelligence must take from global talk to local solutions.

The correct answer is AI Export Promotion, which is not a pillar of the framework. The three interconnected pillars are AI Readiness and Policy, which assesses policy gaps and sets up practical governance frameworks; AI Skills Development, which scales national talent through capacity building and training; and Public AI Infrastructure, which creates standards-based, interoperable sandbox environments for testing, validating, scaling and reusing locally relevant solutions. Options A, B and C are therefore wrong answers to a question asking what is not included. The framework is meant to help countries overcome limited skills, fragmented innovation and missing infrastructure, and India is one of ten pilot countries, alongside partners from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Gulf, bringing its model of shared compute, open datasets and Digital Public Infrastructure.

The correct answer is more than 38,000. The minister said more than 38,000 high-end GPUs have been onboarded under the IndiaAI Mission at roughly a third of the global average cost. Option B is the trap: 20,000 is the number of additional GPUs being added, not the number already onboarded. Options A and D do not match the figures given. The mission has an outlay of over ₹10,000 crore, and alongside compute it covers open data and talent through the AI Kosh platform, which unlocks datasets and sovereign models in agriculture, healthcare and education. India was also said to rank first globally in relative AI skill penetration, with Indian developers contributing about 5.2 per cent of open-source AI projects on GitHub that carry ten or more stars.

The correct answer is over 7.14 crore. The minister said the platform, which pairs artificial intelligence with data analytics, has facilitated the disconnection of more than 7.14 crore fraudulent mobile connections. Option A is a deliberate trap: 35 lakh is the number of lost handsets traced through the same platform, not the number of connections cut. Option B borrows the figure of 2.2 billion people worldwide who remain offline and recasts it as crore, so it is wrong. Option D does not match the number given. The platform has also prevented potential financial fraud worth over ₹5,000 crore. Alongside this, the Telecommunication Engineering Centre has developed national standards on AI fairness, robustness and incident reporting, and a National Working Group on AI Standardization aligns them with ITU-T benchmarks.