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IIM Ahmedabad Seals MoU for Krishnamurthy Tandon School of AI With ₹100 Crore Endowment

The donation equips IIM Ahmedabad to build a management‑rooted AI hub focused on deployable research, policy, public impact.

Overview

  • IIM Ahmedabad exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding to establish the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence on its campus.
  • Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, an IIMA alumna and Grammy-winning musician, and Ranjan Tandon committed ₹100 crore to fund the new school.
  • The MoU exchange occurred virtually in the presence of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi and Ambassador Vinay Kwatra in the United States.
  • IIMA says the school will prioritize responsible, application-led work that converts cutting-edge AI research into tools, frameworks, and scalable systems for industry, government, and society.
  • Officials tied the initiative to the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026 and framed it as strengthening national AI capacity at the intersection of technology, management, and public impact.