Sri Lanka, Feb. 11 -- In a major boost to efforts aimed at building future-ready, sustainable and citizen-centric cities, Odisha's Housing and Urban Development Department (H&UD) on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the AIRAWAT Research Foundation (ARF), IIT Kanpur, to strengthen AI-driven urban governance in the state.

Under the partnership, IIT Kanpur's AIRAWAT Research Foundation will serve as the AI innovation partner to the H&UD Department, providing strategic and technical support for the design and adoption of AI-enabled solutions across Odisha's urban ecosystem.

The collaboration aims to co-develop and deploy priority AI solutions to address key challenges in urban governance, strengthen data systems and ...