UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda Launches SAHI and BODH Initiatives to Strengthen Responsible Health AI Ecosystem at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

Q1. Under which Union ministry's authority was the SAHI (Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India) framework launched at the India AI Impact Summit 2026?

  • A. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • B. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. Ministry of Science and Technology

Q2. As a national guidance framework, SAHI provides strategic direction on how many key functional areas of health AI, namely governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment and monitoring?

  • A. Three
  • B. Four
  • C. Five
  • D. Six

Q3. BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) was developed by which institution in collaboration with the National Health Authority?

  • A. IIT Delhi
  • B. IIT Kanpur
  • C. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
  • D. C-DAC, Pune

Q4. What is the primary function of the BODH platform in India's health AI ecosystem?

  • A. To benchmark and evaluate AI models on diverse real-world health data without sharing the underlying datasets
  • B. To issue unique 14-digit ABHA digital health identities to citizens
  • C. To provide risk capital to health-tech AI startups
  • D. To train medical professionals in the clinical use of AI tools

Q5. The India AI Impact Summit Declaration adopted at the 2026 summit was endorsed by how many countries and international organisations?

  • A. 58
  • B. 92
  • C. 100
  • D. 120

Q6. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), on which SAHI and BODH build, is implemented by which body?

  • A. National Health Authority
  • B. National Informatics Centre
  • C. Indian Council of Medical Research
  • D. Central Bureau of Health Intelligence

Q7. Which of the following is the unique digital health identity that serves as the foundational building block of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission?

  • A. Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA)
  • B. Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR)
  • C. Health Facility Registry (HFR)
  • D. National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX)

Q8. The digital health ecosystem envisioned by the National Health Policy 2017 — invoked as the policy anchor for SAHI — is chiefly operationalised through which mission implemented by the National Health Authority?

  • A. Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
  • B. National Digital Health Blueprint
  • C. eSanjeevani National Telemedicine Service
  • D. National Health Mission

Q9. Among the seven pillars of the IndiaAI Mission (2024), which pillar was allocated the single largest share of the approximately ₹10,372 crore outlay?

  • A. IndiaAI Compute Capacity
  • B. IndiaAI Innovation Centre
  • C. IndiaAI Startup Financing
  • D. IndiaAI FutureSkills

Q10. With reference to the SAHI and BODH initiatives, consider the following: 1. They were launched by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare. 2. Both are exclusively initiatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. 3. They were launched at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. 4. BODH was developed by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority. Which of the above is/are correctly identified?

  1. They were launched by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
  2. Both are exclusively initiatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
  3. They were launched at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
  4. BODH was developed by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority.
  • A. 1, 3 and 4
  • B. 1, 2 and 3
  • C. 2, 3 and 4
  • D. 1 and 4 only

Q11. The following statements compare the SAHI and BODH initiatives with related programmes: 1. SAHI is a national guidance framework, whereas BODH is a benchmarking platform. 2. Unlike SAHI, BODH enables evaluation of AI models without sharing the underlying datasets. 3. Both SAHI and BODH are implemented by MeitY, whereas ABDM is implemented by the National Health Authority. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. SAHI is a national guidance framework, whereas BODH is a benchmarking platform.
  2. Unlike SAHI, BODH enables evaluation of AI models without sharing the underlying datasets.
  3. Both SAHI and BODH are implemented by MeitY, whereas ABDM is implemented by the National Health Authority.
  • A. 1 only
  • B. 1 and 2 only
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 3