Deadline Date: January 11, 2026
Applications are now open for the Al For Healthy India Contest seeking innovative AI and deeptech solutions that can enable equitable and quality healthcare for all, with a strong focus on underserved locations and populations that lack access to adequate healthcare facilities.
The focus areas and themes of the challenge include healthcare, healthtech, and medtech, with priority given to AI for preventive healthcare, AI for mother and child care, and AI for equitable healthcare, emphasizing scalable solutions that improve access, affordability, and outcomes across diverse communities. The challenge is open to a wide range of applicants, including DPIIT-recognized startups, MSMEs registered under Udyog Aadhaar, individuals or teams with innovative or scalable solutions, and school or college students with early-stage ideas. The problem statements encourage solutions that prioritize preventive healthcare over curative approaches, using AI to predict epidemic outbreaks, support mass immunisation, promote fitness and nutrition, enable remote health monitoring, and strengthen awareness initiatives.
Solutions for improved mother and child care are expected to address prenatal, neonatal, and early childhood stages through predictive analytics, digital support systems, drug inventory management, and alignment with national digital health initiatives. The challenge also seeks AI-driven approaches that make healthcare more equitable by improving drug supply chains, enabling remote consultation and diagnostics, supporting robotic surgeries, and deploying AI agents for healthcare professionals.
Selected participants will be eligible for fiscal incentives, including a first prize of INR 0.60 lakh for the best overall solution, three prizes of INR 0.40 lakh each for the best solutions under each problem statement, and Promising Startup awards of INR 10,000 for five startups. In addition to financial support, selected startups will receive non-fiscal benefits such as participation in a fully funded one-week residential cohort, opportunities to pitch to investors and institutions, free incubation and mentoring support, and access to intellectual property and patent assistance.
After the submission process, shortlisted startups will be invited to a fully funded residential programme focused on real-world healthcare challenges, advanced technologies, product scaling, and business and investment readiness, after which the fiscal incentives will be disbursed.
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