Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Friday announced that it has partnered with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to advance and scale India’s sovereign cloud ecosystem. The collaboration will focus on research and innovation to build indigenous technologies and deliver scalable AI-powered cloud platforms in line with India’s data localisation requirements and the digital transformation of key public sector services the company said in a regulatory filing. TCS Inks Pact With C-DAC The collaboration with C-DAC Indias premier R&D institution under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will develop and integrate indigenous innovations into TCS sovereign cloud stack. This move will support the secure and compliant hosting of critical government applications including e-Sanjeevani Dial 112 and workloads from central ministries it said. The partnership will enable faster enterprise adoption by improving security compliance and performance across key sectors such as healthcare defence smart cities and BFSI. Through joint initiatives and public sector engagement TCS and C-DAC aim to establish sovereign cloud platforms as the primary choice for digital transformation initiatives in India. By collaborating with C-DAC we are combining indigenous R&D public sector infrastructure and TCSs enterprise expertise to deliver secure scalable and future-ready cloud platforms tailored to the needs of a digitally empowered India Girish Ramachandran President - Growth Markets at TCS said.  (With Inputs From PTI)