Uttar Pradesh launches AI-based YAKSH app at 'Police Manthan' conference
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the AI-based YAKSH app, a digital beat book, on 27 December 2025 while opening 'Police Manthan', a two-day senior police officers' conference in Lucknow that replaces the annual Police Week.
Summary
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the YAKSH app on 27 December 2025 at Police Manthan, a two-day conference of senior police officers at the police headquarters in Lucknow that replaces the traditional annual Police Week. YAKSH is a digital version of the police beat book built with AI and big-data analytics, with station-wise offender databases, beat-level verification, AI-based suspect identification, voice search, gang-link analysis and movement alerts. The conference has 11 sessions on challenges ranging from cybercrime and human trafficking to social media.
Key facts
- Date / place
- 27 December 2025, UP Police headquarters, Lucknow
- Conference
- Police Manthan (27–28 December), replaces annual Police Week; 11 sessions
- App
- YAKSH: AI and big-data digital beat book
- Features
- Offender database, beat verification, AI suspect identification, voice search, gang-link analysis, movement alerts
- DGP
- Rajeev Krishna
Practice MCQs 3 questions
At which conference did Uttar Pradesh launch the AI-based YAKSH app on 27 December 2025?
Show answer
Correct answer: C — Police Manthan
NDTV (PTI), Hindustan Times and The Indian Express: the app was launched at 'Police Manthan', a two-day conference of senior police officers in Lucknow.
Uttar Pradesh Police's YAKSH app, launched in December 2025, is a digital version of which police record?
Show answer
Correct answer: B — Beat book
NDTV (PTI): YAKSH is a digital version of the beat book developed using AI and big-data analytics.
Consider the following statements about Uttar Pradesh's 'Police Manthan' held in December 2025: 1. Police Manthan replaces the traditional annual Police Week. 2. The two-day conference was held at the police headquarters in Lucknow. 3. The YAKSH app was launched there by the Union Home Minister. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Show answer
Correct answer: B — 1 and 2 only
NDTV (PTI) says the conference replaces the annual Police Week, and The Indian Express says it was held at the police headquarters in Lucknow. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, not the Union Home Minister, launched YAKSH, so statement 3 is wrong.