Robust AI adoption

Apropos the news report ‘AI adoption in India outpaces global peers, driving demand for observability’ (June 17), the boom in AI adoption mainly in manufacturing industry, education, entertainment industry is phenomenal. The GCCs’ presence in India is catalysing the growth of AI observability tools that monitor, trace, and evaluate AI and LLM-powered applications.

Unlike traditional APM tools, they track semantic correctness, hallucinations, cost, latency, and agent trajectories, helping debug errors and optimize performance. India was the world leader in IT and so in AI adoption.

Children in primary classes are taking lessons and are enjoying the new learning patterns. India thus has the AI talent pool of very young professionals.

Vinod Johri

New Delhi

AI sovereignty

Apropos the Editorial ‘Atmanirbhar AI’ (June 17). The US restrictions on advanced AI model access for non-American users proves that technological dependence is strategic vulnerability, regardless of how friendly the relationship appears on the surface.

India’s IndiaAI Mission and the emerging semiconductor ecosystem are steps in the right direction, but the Editorial correctly identifies the private sector’s historically weak R&D culture as the critical missing piece.

Government procurement mandates and tax incentives can create initial demand, but sustained indigenous AI capability requires Indian corporations to treat research investment as a competitive necessity rather than an optional expenditure. The five-layer framework — semiconductors, data centres, energy, applications, and language models — needs parallel progress, not sequential attention.

A Myilsami

Coimbatore

Policy inertia

With the IMD’s grim monsoon prediction, India’s passive approach to climate resilience is alarming.

The Agriculture Ministry has already identified 12 States including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat & Tamil Nadu that face relatively severe threats across 326 vulnerable districts.

One should urgently demand mandatory groundwater rationing, aggressive crop diversification and immediate infrastructure overhauls in these high risk States.

Vijaykumar HK

Raichur

Published on June 17, 2026