Science, Discovery, Tech and Environment · 13 October 2026

CoRover.ai Chosen by MeitY to Build Unified Agentic AI Platform for Government Services, Starting with DigiLocker

Exam-focused facts from the 13 October 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

  • The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) selected CoRover.ai to build a unified agentic AI platform for government services, with DigiLocker as the first implementation.
  • The contract was awarded by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) through a quality-and-cost based selection process, with CoRover topping the evaluation with a score of 100 ahead of Kyndryl Solutions at 91.24.
  • The DigiLocker implementation includes a four-month development phase followed by 12 months of operations and maintenance support.
  • The platform will let government departments develop and deploy AI assistants and bots, with safeguards against prompt injection and jailbreak attempts and monitoring of agent activity, task completion, failures, latency and AI-related costs.
  • CoRover, developer of the BharatGPT platform, said more than 80 firms participated in the tender, with six empanelled for pan-India implementation.