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Aimanthan Launches India’s First Free AI Certification Platform Powered by Claude AI from Anthropic, Bridging the Nation’s AI Skills Gap
New Delhi [India], June 19: Indore-based EdTech startup SITEADDA LABS TECHNOLOGIES LLP brings Claude AI — the world’s most trusted AI — to Indian learners, offering free, QR-verified AI certificates in 15 minutes on any skill
India’s AI education landscape has witnessed a significant development with the launch of Aimanthan (aimanthan.org), a free AI certification platform that enables any Indian learner — student, professional, or entrepreneur — to earn a verifiable AI certificate in 15 minutes at zero cost, powered by Claude AI, Anthropic’s globally trusted artificial intelligence, the same AI deployed by Fortune 500 companies, governments, and leading institutions across 150+ countries.
The launch comes at a pivotal moment for India. The country hosted the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood alongside Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic) — the company behind Claude AI — to outline India’s ambition to become a global AI powerhouse. Yet a critical barrier remains: over 3.5 lakh AI roles are unfilled across India, and millions of talented individuals lack a credible, verifiable way to prove their AI skills to employers.
Aimanthan is built to solve precisely this problem.
“India has always had talent in abundance. What has been missing is a fair, fast, and credible system to recognise that talent in emerging fields like AI — especially for learners outside the IIT-IIM ecosystem,” said a spokesperson for SITEADDA LABS TECHNOLOGIES LLP, the Indore-based technology company behind Aimanthan. “We built Aimanthan so that a student in a tier-3 city in Madhya Pradesh has the same access to a credible AI certificate as someone in Bengaluru or Mumbai.”
How Claude AI Makes the Difference
Unlike conventional online certification platforms that rely on static multiple-choice answer keys, Aimanthan’s assessments are evaluated in real time by Claude AI — Anthropic’s flagship artificial intelligence model. Claude dynamically generates unique questions for every learner on their chosen topic, evaluates their responses contextually, and issues a score, grade, and level that reflect genuine demonstrated knowledge.
This means an Aimanthan certificate cannot be faked, copied, or gamed. Every certificate carries a unique certificate number and a QR verification code, allowing recruiters and institutions to validate the credential in seconds at https://aimanthan.org/verify.php.
“When a recruiter sees ‘AI Evaluation by Claude (Anthropic)’ on a certificate, they know it stands for something real,” the spokesperson added. “This is not a participation certificate — it is a performance credential backed by the world’s most credible AI company.”
Key Features of the Aimanthan Platform
• Free Forever: No signup fee, no subscription, no hidden charges. The assessment and certificate remain permanently free for all learners.
• Any Skill: Learners can choose any AI topic — Prompt Engineering, SEO with AI, Digital Marketing, Data Analysis, Travel AI, Healthcare AI, ChatGPT for Business, and more — making it India’s most flexible AI certification platform.
• 15-Minute Certification: A focused 10-question adaptive assessment, with a 30-second timer per question, yields an instant certificate upon completion.
• QR-Verified Credentials: Every certificate is live and verifiable on the Aimanthan platform, ensuring authenticity for employers, institutions, and recruiters.
• College Partnership Programme: Educational institutions can co-brand certificates, enrol students in bulk, and earn a commission — positioning themselves as AI-forward campuses aligned with Skill India and Digital India missions.
• AI-Powered Courses: Full AI-generated courses with an AI Tutor (powered by Claude), video lessons, and project-based assessments are available for learners seeking deeper skills beyond the free certificate.
Aligned with India’s National AI Mission
Aimanthan is explicitly aligned with three of India’s flagship government programmes: Skill India, Digital India, and the IndiaAI Mission — the government’s Rs 10,371 crore initiative to build AI infrastructure, skilling, and innovation ecosystems across the country.
India’s National AI Strategy recognises that democratising AI education is critical to the country’s ambition to train 5 million AI-skilled professionals by 2027. Aimanthan contributes to this goal by removing the two biggest barriers to AI certification: cost and accessibility.
“Our mission is simple: make AI education the great equaliser in India,” the spokesperson stated. “Every certificate we issue is a small step toward the India that Prime Minister Modi described at VivaTech 2026 — where the democratisation of AI ensures its benefits reach everyone, not just the elite.”
The AI Skills Demand Is Urgent and Growing
According to industry data, 80 percent of Indian companies have begun integrating AI tools into their operations in 2026. From e-commerce and banking to travel, healthcare, and content creation, AI literacy has moved from a ‘nice to have’ to a mandatory baseline skill across roles and industries.
Google’s recent launch of its AI Professional Certificate with bundled AI Pro access, and Microsoft’s push of Copilot certifications through LinkedIn Learning, underscore the global consensus: certified AI training is the new standard for workforce hiring.
Aimanthan differentiates itself by offering the fastest, most flexible, and most credible route to AI certification in India — one that does not require a learner to commit hours to a structured course before they can prove their skill.
About Aimanthan
Aimanthan (aimanthan.org) is India’s free AI certification and education platform, built and operated by SITEADDA LABS TECHNOLOGIES LLP, a registered Indian technology company based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The platform uses Claude AI by Anthropic to evaluate learners across any AI skill topic, issuing QR-verified certificates instantly at zero cost. Aimanthan is aligned with the Skill India, Digital India, and IndiaAI missions. The platform also offers AI-powered full courses with AI Tutor support, college partnership programmes, and a daily AI blog for Indian learners.
About Anthropic and Claude AI
Anthropic is an AI safety company founded by Dario Amodei and other former OpenAI researchers. Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, is one of the world’s most widely trusted AI systems, deployed by Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organisations, government agencies, and educational institutions across 150+ countries. Anthropic was represented at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, New Delhi, alongside Google, OpenAI, and DeepMind.
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Reversing The Mobility Pyramid: Experts Rally For Urban Replanning And Public Transit Modernization As Cabinet Moves To Phase Out Old Fleets
New Delhi [India], June 10: In a major push toward rewriting India’s urban transport landscape, top policy experts, administrative leaders, and civil society advocates have called for a radical departure from “car-centric” development. The paradigm shift comes amid reports that the Union Cabinet is poised to clear a landmark scheme to phase out commercial BS-IV trucks and buses. Simultaneously, state governments are aggressively reviving local public transit networks—highlighted by Madhya Pradesh’s decision to re-launch its state-wide public bus service after a 21-year hiatus.
To bridge these massive national policy shifts with ground realities, the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) India Forum hosted a high-level Round Table Discussion on Active Travel in India. The conclave underscored a critical national consensus: the future of Indian cities lies in shifting from “moving vehicles” to “moving people safely.”
The Multi-Pronged National Push for Transit Modernization
India’s current transport ecosystem faces a twin crisis of severe air pollution and escalating road fatalities. Policy interventions at the highest levels are mobilizing to counter this. The Union Government’s proposed scheme to phase out older BS-IV commercial trucks and buses targets vehicular emissions directly, which experts state accounts for up to 60% of urban air pollution.
Complementing the clean fleet transition is the revival of public transport infrastructure on the state level. The Madhya Pradesh government’s historic re-launch of its state-wide public bus service ends a 21-year gap that left rural and intercity commuters vulnerable to unregulated private operators. Analysts note that introducing structured state fleet networks is essential to curbing traffic congestion and laying down a multimodal framework where public transit and active travel—such as walking and cycling—coexist.
Flipping the Priority Pyramid: Insights from the Conclave
Presiding as the Chairperson of the Round Table discussion, Shri Durga Shankar Mishra, IAS (Retd.), Member of the High-Level Committee on Demographic Change and former Chief Secretary to the Government of Uttar Pradesh, called for a complete overhaul of urban planning paradigms.
“The National Urban Transport Policy established in 2006 explicitly stated that our focus must be on moving people, not moving vehicles,” Shri Mishra noted. “Unfortunately, moving vehicles became the priority. We widened roads, built flyovers, and added underpasses, yet congestion has only worsened. The best global cities are actively cutting down car access in high-footfall areas. It is high time our urban redevelopments emphasize ‘last mile connectivity’ and prioritize walk able designs.”
Addressing the economic and structural metrics used by municipal bodies, Dr. Ashish Kumar Srivastava, IAS, Regional Director of the Staff Selection Commission (Central Region, Prayagraj), presented data revealing a massive “latent demand” for walking and cycling in Indian cities.
“Our research shows that 59% of all daily urban trips in India are less than 5 kilometers, and 28% are under 2 kilometers,” Dr. Srivastava revealed. “Yet, over 57% of these short trips are performed via motorized transport. People want to walk, but our city infrastructure denies them the opportunity. We must reform our cost-benefit analysis models for government projects to accurately value the ‘intangible benefits’ of active mobility—such as public health improvements and social inclusion—rather than just tracking vehicular travel time.”
Safety, Denial, and Grassroots Action
A glaring theme of the discussion was the structural danger currently posed to vulnerable road users. Ms. Sarika Panda Bhatt, Co-Founder of the Raahgiri Foundation, highlighted the severe lack of basic safety design in rapidly growing corporate hubs like Gurugram.
“We are cutting down trees and widening roads for cars, creating urban heat islands and chronic waterlogging, while basic 1.8-meter footpaths are treated as an afterthought,” Ms. Bhatt stated. She criticized the bureaucratic inertia regarding the public health impact of emissions: “We are in deep denial about air pollution. Our country loses 3.5% of its GDP to road traffic crashes, yet our entire transportation budget is just 1.79% of our GDP—and 80% of that goes strictly toward constructing more roads for cars. We must reverse this mobility pyramid.”
The discussion also highlighted successful micro-interventions carried out by the Raahgiri Foundation, including transforming chaotic school zones into high-visibility, child-friendly spaces with proper crosswalks and slowing traffic around high-fatality black spots.
Adding to the commuter perspective, Dr. Nakul Parashar, Former Director of Vigyan Prasar (DST, Government of India), emphasized that user experience must dictate multi-modal design. He observed that while awareness is rising via social media, infrastructural gaps—such as non-functional escalators at transit hubs or the lack of safe late-night public transport to airports—force citizens back into private cars.
Technological Integration as the Catalyst
The forum concluded with a forward-looking consensus on leveraging indigenous technology to safeguard active travelers. Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava, President of the ITS India Forum, detailed how digital age solutions can reduce the 35% fatality rate suffered by pedestrians. He advocated for Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) technology, which utilizes mobile networks and alerts to bridge safety gaps.
Echoing this, Mr. Sunil, President of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), highlighted breakthrough home-grown technology, such as Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcasting developed by IIT Kanpur. This technology allows seamless road and emergency connectivity without requiring active cellular data or SIM cards, ensuring even the most vulnerable commuters remain connected and safe.
A Unified Road to 2047
With India’s urban population projected to cross the 50% threshold in the coming decades, the Round Table served as a critical reminder that incoming urban expansions must follow strict human-centric guidelines. By combining macro-level fleet upgrades like the BS-IV phase-out and state bus revivals with micro-level walk-able urban design, India can achieve a transport ecosystem that is both highly efficient and in sync with nature.
Dr. Shiv Kumar, Director General of the ITS India Forum, summed up the consensus of the afternoon: India’s mobility transition — from reviving buses to scrapping older fleets — must be built around people who walk and cycle, not only those who drive.
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