Jharkhand’s Rural Development Department has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) training initiative for its officials and employees in a move aimed at strengthening administrative efficiency and digital governance.
The initiative, introduced under the leadership of Rural Development, Rural Works and Panchayati Raj Minister Dipika Pandey Singh, seeks to integrate modern technology into administrative processes to improve transparency, monitoring and decision-making.
As part of the programme, the department established a Rural AI Support Cell on October 17, 2025, to institutionalise the use of AI and digital tools in governance.
Between January and February 2026, the department organised six training sessions in which more than 40 officials and staff members participated. The participants included computer operators, data entry personnel, section officers, assistant officers and officials up to the under-secretary level.
During the training, employees were introduced to the practical use of AI tools in administrative work, including drafting official notes and letters, summarising documents, analysing data, preparing dashboards and generating reports.
Officials were also trained in the use of modern AI platforms such as Claude AI, Microsoft Copilot, Power BI, Perplexity AI and Gamma.
The department plans to develop live dashboards for monitoring schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) and is also working on creating an Integrated Rural Data Hub to consolidate data from multiple programmes.
An AI-based chatbot is also being planned to help rural citizens access information about government schemes and the status of their applications.
The department said the AI training initiative would be expanded in the next phase to include district and block-level officials as well as personnel from agencies such as the Rural Engineering Organisation (REO) and the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS).