Majhi made the statement on Saturday at a meeting with private AI companies regarding the country’s efforts to build a secure, inclusive and sovereign artificial intelligence ecosystem.
According to a statement released by the CMO, discussions focused on establishing artificial intelligence as a long-term public capability, with emphasis on sovereign infrastructure, population-scale applications across key sectors, and durable institutional capacity within states.
Besides Majhi, the meeting was attended by Electronics and IT Minister Mukesh Maharin, Chief Secretary Anu Garg and senior government officials.
During the discussion, the Odisha government outlined an approach to develop a shared sovereign AI infrastructure, including secure computing and a state government data platform, to ensure that public data, AI models, and intelligence systems remain within Odisha’s trust boundaries.
Shared infrastructure is envisioned as a common resource for departments, enabling scale, security, and long-term sustainability while avoiding fragmented investments.
The government also emphasized the deployment of population-scale voice-enabled AI applications across sectors such as education, agriculture, healthcare, e-government, and public safety. These systems aim to strengthen the last mile delivery of government systems by allowing citizens to access information about their rights, benefits and grievance redress through a simple conversational interface.
According to the statement, the two sides discussed a parallel one-year implementation framework to enable timely implementation. Under the framework, departments will prepare datasets, identify priority use cases, and develop applications in parallel with commissioning core AI infrastructure to ensure services can be deployed without delay.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is likely to be signed at the Black Swan Summit to be held in Bhubaneswar on February 5-6.
