The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body under the Ministry of Education, grants approval for conducting courses in Technical Education at diploma, undergraduate and post graduate levels to Technical Institutions, Institutions deemed to be Universities and standalone institutions. AICTE regulates and maintains quality of Technical Education in the country. To promote Artificial Intelligence (AI) in technical education, AICTE has introduced core and elective AI courses across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including for non-computer science branches.

To enable upgradation of faculty in these emerging technologies, faculty development programs and workshops on AI have also been initiated. Further, to promote Campus & Student engagement, AICTE conducts Hackathons which facilitate AI awareness, peer learning, and hands-on experience. AICTE also offers meritorious women engineering students scholarships such as PRAGATI and Saraswati, thereby fostering a supportive environment for women in these disciplines.

In addition to the above, MSDE has also launched AI Career for Women Initiative in April 2025 where over a period of two years, training and enabling economic opportunities for 8000 girls would be the focus of the Programme. Further, under the PMKVY 4.0 Scheme of MSDE, gender-wise, job role-wise details of candidates trained/oriented and certified in AI related job roles as on 30.06.2025 are at Annexure-I.

Annexure-I

The gender-wise, job role-wise details of candidates trained/oriented and certified in AI related job roles under PMKVY 4.0 as on 30.06.2025 are as under:

 

	Trained / Oriented		Certified
Job Role Name	Female	Male	Female	Male
AI - Business Intelligence Analyst	1,197	1,534	635	719
AI - Data Architect	893	414	381	131
AI - Data Engineer	529	656	287	256
AI - Data Quality Analyst	4,246	2,913	2,807	1,920
AI - Data Scientist	1,985	1,966	1,327	1,174
AI - Database Administrator	3,450	2,584	1,916	1,500
AI - DevOps Engineer	2,116	2,189	1,706	1,780
AI - Machine Learning Engineer	3,808	3,988	2,849	2,637
AI - Solution Architect	77	164	50	65
AI & ML - Jr. Telecom Data Analyst	84	170	61	119
AI Devices Installation Operator	77	88	46	39
Pharmacovigilance Case- Processing (Incidents /adverse event using software including AI tools)	936	520	830	455
Total	19,398	17,186	12,895	10,795

 

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Shri Jayant Chaudhary in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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Manish Gautam/ Shahbaz Hasibi

 

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