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'India is in top tier of AI nations, not second tier'
Hindustan Times Punjab
|January 22, 2026
Minister for electronics and information technology (MeitY) Ashwini Vaishnaw pushed back against the suggestion that India belongs to a second tier of artificial intelligence (AI) nations, at the World Economic Forum panel titled ‘AI Power Play, No Referees’.
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
(PTI)
His remarks came after International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva outlined IMF's newly created Index of Preparedness, which groups countries into those that “make it happen”, those who “watch it happen”.
Georgieva named the United States, Denmark and Singapore as the top three countries, and said emerging markets such as Saudi Arabia and India ranked relatively high because of their investments in technology, placing India in the higher spectrum due to its longstanding focus on IT. Responding to a question on whether India, seen as part of a second grouping, would need to align more closely with the US or China, Vaishnaw said India clearly belongs in the first group because it is working across all five layers of the AI stack.
This story is from the January 22, 2026 edition of Hindustan Times Punjab.
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