Inside the Vikram Sodhi Centre of Excellence: How IIT Kharagpur Plans to Modernise Indian Mining

The Vikram Sodhi Centre of Excellence for AI-Enabled Geological and Mining Systems at IIT Kharagpur aims to modernize Indian mining using AI across exploration, planning, processing, maintenance, and ESG. Its key innovation—industry-linked “Grand Challenges”—uses real mining data to build deployable solutions, bridging the long-standing gap between data availability and actionable insights.