IndiaAI mission scores big: BHASHINI shifts 3.5 billion files to indigenous infrastructure

The milestone closely aligns with the objectives of the IndiaAI Mission and marks a significant step forward in India’s journey toward building self-reliant and scalable AI capabilities. With this transition, BHASHINI now operates entirely on Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, AI models, and citizen interactions remain within India’s jurisdiction.

The landmark development was showcased at “The India AI Sovereignty Dialogues”, an official Pre-Summit event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, hosted by Yotta and the Digital India BHASHINI Division. The achievement was documented in the Sovereign AI Cloud Transformation Report, which was launched at the event.

The report draws insights from a real-world deployment during Maha Kumbh 2025 — the world’s largest religious gathering — where BHASHINI’s multilingual AI services were tested at population scale. Powered by Yotta’s NVIDIA H100-enabled Shakti Cloud, the platform delivered real-time translation and voice-based assistance in more than 11 Indian languages, including the multilingual assistant ‘Kumbh Sah’AI’yak’.

The deployment demonstrated how national digital public goods can be migrated from hyperscaler environments to indigenous cloud infrastructure while delivering up to 40 percent performance improvement, 20–30 percent cost savings, and sustained 99.99 percent uptime. The transition was completed with zero data loss across more than 200 TiB of data and over 3.5 billion files.

Commenting on the development, Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; CEO, IndiaAI Mission; and Director General, National Informatics Centre, said, “The successful migration of BHASHINI to indigenous cloud and GPU platforms demonstrates that India can build, scale, and secure its sovereign AI systems for the public good. It underscores the IndiaAI Mission’s vision of developing sovereign compute capacity and deploying AI applications tailored to India’s unique requirements, including reliable, real-time, voice-based services at population scale.”

Highlighting the platform’s impact, Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division, said, “The move to Yotta’s sovereign AI cloud gives BHASHINI greater control, resilience, and scalability as it continues to serve India’s linguistic diversity. This transformation strengthens our ability to deliver inclusive, real-time multilingual services and marks a major step forward for Digital Public Infrastructure in AI. It also serves as a blueprint for future deployments as we transition toward a fully sovereign technology stack.”

Kavita Bhatia, COO, IndiaAI Mission, stated, “BHASHINI’s transition to a fully sovereign AI cloud is a significant milestone in the IndiaAI Mission’s effort to build population-scale AI on Indian infrastructure. It demonstrates that national digital public goods can be securely scaled on indigenous, open platforms without compromising performance. This deployment sets a strong blueprint for future public sector AI initiatives.”

Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta Data Services, added, “Yotta’s successful deployment of BHASHINI on Shakti Cloud marks a defining moment in India’s data sovereignty journey. This transition shows that hyperscale, mission-critical AI platforms can be built and operated entirely on sovereign infrastructure without compromise. The project validates India’s ability to run advanced AI workloads on open, interoperable architectures and reflects Yotta’s capability to build and operate digital infrastructure at national scale.”

Executed over a two-to-three-month period, the migration covered BHASHINI’s complete AI stack, including multilingual datasets, models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases, and storage systems. The new architecture incorporates open-source, cloud-agnostic components, reinforcing long-term vendor neutrality and strategic autonomy.

The deployed environment has been designed as a modular and reusable reference framework that can be adopted by ministries, public sector units, and large-scale national programmes. It provides a clear roadmap for hyperscaler-to-Indian-cloud transitions and reinforces India’s ambition to position AI as a secure, inclusive, and sovereign public utility that supports economic growth, digital inclusion, and technological leadership.