Our first deployment

KumbhDoot

AI Agent for Every Pilgrim

  • Voice-First
  • 20+ Languages
  • Crowd Management
  • Emergency Response

Empowering 50M+ pilgrims at the Nashik Kumbh Mela 2027. Launched by CM Devendra Fadnavis at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

Key contributors

Kaustubh Dhavse
Chief Advisor to CM, Maharashtra
Dr. Praveen Gedam
Divisional Commissioner, Nashik
Shekhar Singh
Commissioner of Kumbh Mela, Nashik
Dr. Ramesh Raskar
MIT & Project NANDA

Team

Mahesh Lambe · Saurabh Sakalkar · Ankur Shinde · Rekha Singhal · Gurusha Raskar

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The 3-layer architecture

From a personal agent to an ecosystem of services.

KumbhDoot is built as three interoperable layers - citizens, shared infrastructure and service providers - connected through open routing and orchestration.

Layer 3

Citizen agents

Every pilgrim gets a personal AI twin - voice-first, multilingual and offline-capable - that carries their context, preferences and needs through the mela.

  • Personal AI twin
  • Voice-first
  • 20+ languages
  • On-device context

Layer 2

Uber agents & infrastructure

Shared public rails that route and orchestrate requests between citizens and providers, without any single actor owning the graph.

  • Identity
  • Context
  • Health
  • Payment
  • Commerce
  • Governance

Layer 1

Service startups & providers

An open ecosystem of 14,500+ providers - homestays, doctors, food vendors, government schemes and NGOs - discoverable through the same protocol.

  • Homestays
  • Doctors
  • Food vendors
  • Govt schemes
  • NGOs

AI for Kumbh

Sovereign agent architecture.

Nashik Kumbh 2027 - a government and citizen stakeholder model, from on-device agents to sovereign cloud, running on India's public digital rails.

Government

  • MeitY / NIC

    Cloud & DPI

  • State Admin

    Mela Ops

  • Civic Agencies

    Police · health

  • Regulators

    CERT-In · DPDP

Layer 1

Edge Agent Layer

Citizen-facing · On-device

  • Personal AI Agent

    Smartphone / feature phone

  • Bhashini Voice

    STT / TTS · 22+ languages

  • Local Data Vault

    AES-256 · on-device

  • Cloud Sync

    DR · cross-device

Layer 2

Ecosystem Integration

Federated agent discovery

  • Civic Agents

    Police · health · transport

  • State Camp Agents

    Regional · language

  • Commercial Agents

    Hotels · food · IRCTC

  • Discovery Service

    Capability routing

ONDC · ABDM · UPI · AA · IRCTC · DigiLocker

Layer 3

Sovereign Agent Platform

DPI · trust · governance

  • Identity & Consent

    Aadhaar · DEPA

  • Agent Registry

    Federated · reputation

  • Policy Engine

    RBAC · emergency

  • Audit & Analytics

    Tamper-proof · FL

Layer 4

Sovereign Cloud

MeitY · India data residency

  • PostgreSQL

    Relational core

  • MongoDB

    Document store

  • InfluxDB

    Time series

  • Snowflake

    Analytics

Pilgrims

  • Individuals

    10M+ users

  • Families

    Group tracking

  • Intl. Visitors

    Digital visa

  • Vendors

    Commerce

Security architecture

WAF · TLS 1.3 · AES-256 · OWASP · differential privacy

Scalability & performance

10k–50k msg/s · <2s response · 99.99% uptime