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MeitY Awards CoRover Contract to Build Unified Agentic AI Platform and DigiLocker Bot
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Moneycontrol•07-10-2026, 12:18
MeitY Awards CoRover Contract to Build Unified Agentic AI Platform and DigiLocker Bot
- •The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology awarded Bengaluru-based CoRover the contract to build a unified AI assistant and bot platform.
- •CoRover won the contract after emerging as the highest-ranked bidder with a score of 100 in the quality-and-cost based selection process, beating Kyndryl Solutions.
- •DigiLocker will be the first government service and minimum viable product built on the agentic AI framework, with a four-month implementation phase.
- •The project aims to provide a reusable conversational and agentic AI bot framework for government departments rather than just a standalone DigiLocker bot.
- •The platform will feature an explicit AI governance layer including prompt version control, jailbreak defences, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
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Bengaluru-based CoRover was awarded the contract by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) after emerging as the highest-ranked bidder with a score of 100 in the quality-and-cost based selection process.
DigiLocker will be the first government service and minimum viable product built under the framework, handling tasks like fetching and securely sharing documents through a conversational interface.
The project requires an explicit AI governance layer that includes version control for prompts and models, approval and rollback workflows, tool-argument validation, prompt-injection and jailbreak defences, as well as human-in-the-loop workflows.
