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UP Budget 2025–26: an AI City and a cyber security research park

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Battle IAS UP current affairs title card: UP Budget 2025–26: an AI City and a cyber security research park (, 20 February 2025)

What happened

  • The 2025–26 budget included a new scheme for an “Artificial Intelligence City” and a Technology Research Translation Park in cyber security. [UP Budget]
  • ICT labs and smart classes were being set up in primary and higher secondary schools. [UP Budget]

Background

  • The budget also provided for modern IT systems for the Vidhan Sabha. [UP Budget]

Why it matters

  • An AI City as a named budget scheme signals where the state wants new investment to go.

Read all of February 2025 in the monthly UP current affairs compilation →

How to use this in Mains

GS-VI technology policy

  1. An AI City as a named budget scheme signals where the state wants new investment to go.
Quotable data point

The 2025–26 budget included a new scheme for an "Artificial Intelligence City" and a Technology Research Translation Park in cyber security [UP Budget].

UP Finance Department: Budget Speech 2025-26 (Hindi PDF)

Exam angle

UPPCS

GS-VI: technology policy.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPPCS

Which new scheme was announced in UP Budget 2025–26?

Answer (a) & explanation

Source: as cited in this article.

Official source: UP Finance Department: Budget Speech 2025-26 (Hindi PDF)

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