Sarvam AI Takes Indus to 2,500 Maharashtra Govt Officials

Bengaluru-based startup Sarvam AI is deploying its Indus AI workspace across the Maharashtra government, with around 2,500 officials expected to use the platform in their daily work.

The deployment will allow officials across state departments to research policies and precedents, draft notes and replies, translate and summarise government documents, analyse data and convert scanned records into searchable text. 

Indus will support workflows across 22 Indian languages, including Marathi.

The deployment is part of a broader partnership between Sarvam and the Maharashtra government that will also cover voice agents for citizen outreach and speech technologies for public services.

According to Sarvam, officials will be able to use Indus for tasks that form part of routine administrative work, including researching government policies, preparing first drafts and analysing long documents.

The platform can also be used to process scanned records and make them searchable, which could help departments work with legacy documents that are not available in digital formats.

Sarvam says the system will run on infrastructure located entirely in India, with government data remaining within the country.

The company has positioned Indus as part of its broader sovereign AI strategy. When Indus was introduced in February, Sarvam said, “True AI sovereignty means building the full stack of technology from the ground up.”

Indus is powered by Sarvam’s 105B sovereign model. The company opened the platform to users in limited beta in February, describing it as an interface for its Indian-language AI models.

The Indus deployment follows Maharashtra’s broader push to integrate AI into government operations.

In March, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced letters of intent with OpenAI and Sarvam AI, alongside MoUs with IIT Bombay and BharatGen, as part of the state’s plan to strengthen its AI capabilities.

The state has since created an Electronics, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Department. The department was constituted through a government notification dated April 21, 2026, and is responsible for AI policy, digital governance, data governance, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure.

Maharashtra has also published its AI Policy 2026, signalling a broader effort to incorporate AI into public administration and build an AI ecosystem in the state.

The government has separately announced plans for an advanced State Data Centre in Nagpur to secure the state’s data and applications.

The Maharashtra deployment gives Sarvam another government use case for its full-stack AI platform. The company was selected by the central government in 2025 to build a sovereign large language model under the IndiaAI Mission, with the model to be built and deployed in India.

Sarvam has since expanded beyond foundation models into products covering AI assistants, speech, translation and document processing.

The company raised $234 million in the first close of its $300 million Series B in June at a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion. HCLTech led the round with a $150 million investment, while Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors Khosla Ventures and Peak XV Partners also participated.

Following that, it also secured $75 million from investors including NVIDIA, Glade Brook, Gaja Capital, IndiGo Ventures, and several individual investors.

Sarvam said the funding would support research into its next models and expand its compute capacity and deployments across enterprises, developers and government.

The Maharashtra rollout puts that strategy into practice at the administrative level, with thousands of officials using an Indian AI system for day-to-day government work rather than limiting deployment to a standalone pilot.