Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Rajeshwar Singh has called for the introduction of artificial intelligence education for school students in Uttar Pradesh, along with the creation of a state-level commission aimed at preparing children for increasing global competition and ensuring equal opportunities. The legislator from the Sarojini Nagar constituency in Lucknow outlined an eight-point action plan in a letter sent to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday.
In his letter, Singh wrote that the present era belongs to artificial intelligence, a technological wave that is reshaping humanity. He added that this is the right moment for Uttar Pradesh to guide the nation’s shift from Digital Bharat to AI Bharat.
As part of his proposal, he suggested forming a task force made up of experts from IIT Kanpur, IIIT Lucknow, NCERT and NITI Aayog. This group would develop a phased action plan within six months. Singh also recommended launching a pilot project covering around 200 schools across urban, rural and minority-dominated regions. The school curriculum, he said, can be expanded to include logic, patterns, digital behaviour, coding, robotics, data fundamentals, machine learning and AI ethics.
He explained that such a curriculum would strengthen analytical abilities, reasoning skills and real-life problem-solving capabilities among students. The proposed commission would work across various sectors including education, industry, research, cybersecurity, ethics and employment, creating a unified policy structure for AI learning, industrial application and ethical governance.
Singh stated that the government could allocate about Rs 450 crore over a period of five years to train students and teachers and establish resource centres in all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh by 2030.
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