The IndiaAI–NCG CATCH Grant for Cancer 2026 compendium documents ten winning AI solutions selected through a competitive grant program jointly run by IndiaAI (MeitY) and the National Cancer Grid's Koita Centre for Digital Oncology. It profiles AI tools spanning cancer screening, diagnostics, clinical decision support, patient engagement, and operational efficiency, ranging from pilot-ready to commercially deployed systems. Each solution is evaluated against criteria including clinical relevance, technical maturity, data governance, DPDP compliance, and deployment feasibility within Indian hospital settings. The compendium also covers the selection methodology, jury composition, responsible AI principles, and key learnings from the challenge, serving as a reference for hospitals, policymakers, and innovators seeking to adopt or scale AI-enabled cancer care across India.

India's 2024 AI landscape saw six breakthrough models: BharatGen's e-vikrAI for e-commerce, Sarvam-1 supporting 10 Indian languages, NVIDIA's Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, AI4Bharat's Chitralekha for video transcreation, Everest 1.0 covering 35 languages, and Surya OCR for document processing. These models integrate local languages and cultural context, setting global AI benchmarks.