Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee to
Andhra Pradesh Govt. to enable Artificial Intelligence in the Government's secretariat-cum-eoffice.

Also, Prof. Bhattacharya shall be leading a national initiative (NITI Aayog teaming up with IITs) to create NLP-stack and virtual assistants in Indian Languages which will involve extensive use of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Technology. 

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/niti-aayog-iit-developing-indian-language-bot/articleshow/67031593.cms