Telangana opens Green Skills and Applied AI centre; 100 job offers on day one

Telangana's IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu inaugurated a Green Skills and Applied AI Centre of Excellence at SAS iTower in Hyderabad on Friday, October 23, 2026. The centre, set up with Microsoft, the 1M1B Foundation and MeitY Startup Hub, will give technology and science graduates hands-on training in applied artificial intelligence (AI) and green industries such as solar, wind, electric vehicles and green pharmaceuticals. On launch day, 100 job offers were announced and eight agreements were signed with industry partners.

The centre is built around hands-on training, the part of a graduate's preparation that a degree course often has least room for. It also joins two fields that are changing at the same time: AI, which is being built into almost every industry, and green industries such as renewable energy and clean manufacturing. A centre that trains graduates in both, and links them directly to employers, is aimed at that gap.

"Applied AI" means using AI to solve a specific, real problem, such as predicting equipment failure in a wind farm or checking quality on a pharmaceutical production line, rather than doing research on new AI models. "Green skills" are the technical abilities needed in industries that cut pollution and carbon emissions, for example installing and maintaining solar panels, servicing EV batteries, or running cleaner chemical processes. Combining the two reflects how these jobs are actually changing on the ground.

The 100 job offers announced at the launch, and the eight agreements signed with companies, suggest that the centre is meant to work as a pipeline to jobs rather than only as a classroom. One of the launch-day partners, SCL Lifesciences, is from the life-sciences sector, which fits the centre's focus on "green pharma", meaning cleaner and less wasteful ways of making medicines.

For readers outside Telangana, the national network matters more than one building. If the five centres together reach their target of one lakh trained young people by 2030, they would add a meaningful number of job-ready workers in fields that are expected to keep hiring. Students should watch for admission notices from the centre and its partners, check the eligibility rules, and compare the training with what local employers are asking for.

Short-term: Graduates in Hyderabad gain a new place to train in applied AI and green technologies, and the first 100 job offers give some of them an immediate route to work.

Long-term: If the five-centre network meets its target, it could help ease the shortage of practically trained workers in renewable energy, EVs and AI-enabled manufacturing, and give pharmaceutical makers staff trained in cleaner production.

Who is affected: Technology and science graduates in Telangana and beyond, companies in renewable energy, EVs and pharmaceuticals looking for trained staff, and colleges whose students can use the centre for practical training.

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