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AI (Ethics and Accountability) Bill, 2025
Private member's bill in the Lok Sabha to set up a central AI Ethics Committee, bias audits and developer transparency duties
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
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India AI Governance Guidelines (2025)
MeitY's framework of seven 'sutras', six pillars and new institutions that governs AI through existing laws rather than a standalone AI statute
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
BIS AI standards
BIS lists 26 published AI and big-data Indian Standards adopted from ISO/IEC, including the AI management system standard IS/ISO/IEC 42001:2023
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
CCI AI Market Study
The Competition Commission's first market study of AI: concentration, algorithmic collusion, entry barriers and a voluntary self-audit framework
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
NITI AI for Inclusive Societal Development
NITI Aayog Frontier Tech Hub roadmap proposing a national mission, Digital ShramSetu, to bring AI to India's 490 million informal workers
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
NITI Aayog AI for Viksit Bharat roadmap
NITI Aayog's Frontier Tech Hub roadmap on how AI adoption and AI-led R&D could help India reach 8% growth and a USD 8.3 trillion economy by 2035
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
Parliamentary committees on deepfakes and AI content
Two 2025 committee reports urging watermarking, labelling, licensing of AI content creators and tighter safe harbour, with no formal government response found
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
RBI FREE-AI Framework
RBI committee report setting out 7 'Sutras', 6 pillars and 26 recommendations for AI adoption by banks, NBFCs and fintechs
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
CERT-In AIBOM guidelines
CERT-In's guidelines asking government and essential-services buyers to demand an AI Bill of Materials, with its AI security advisory and 2026 blueprint
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
CRI Examination Guidelines 2025
The Patent Office's 2025 examination guidelines for software and AI inventions, with a dedicated chapter on AI/ML, inventorship and disclosure
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
AI Competency Framework for Public Sector Officials
IndiaAI framework, launched 6 March 2025, defining the AI skills government officials need to adopt and oversee AI in public services
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
AIKosh
India's national repository of datasets, AI models and use cases, built under the IndiaAI Mission with permission-based access
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
IndiaAI foundation models
The IndiaAI Mission's programme to fund India-built large, small and multimodal models, from Sarvam AI to the IIT Bombay-led BharatGen
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
IndiaAI Safety Institute
A non-regulatory hub under the IndiaAI Mission's Safe and Trusted AI pillar for AI-safety research, standards and testing
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
ECI AI-labelling advisories (2025)
ECI requires parties to label AI-generated campaign material, with labels covering 10% of the screen, creator disclosure, record-keeping and three-hour takedowns
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
MeitY AI governance subcommittee report (2025)
The draft report that proposed an inter-ministerial AI body, a technical secretariat and an AI incident database, and led to the November 2025 governance guidelines
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
IndiaAI compute capacity
The IndiaAI Mission pillar that empanels private GPU clouds and offers subsidised compute to startups, researchers and government bodies
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
AI Centres of Excellence
Government-funded AI research hubs in agriculture, health, sustainable cities and education, announced in successive Union Budgets and in October 2024
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
NABCB AIMS Accreditation
QCI's accreditation board sets the criteria under which bodies may certify organisations against ISO/IEC 42001, the AI management system standard
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
ECI deepfake advisory (May 2024)
ECI's first deepfake-specific directions to political parties, requiring removal of deepfake audio and video within three hours during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Status checked Oct 14, 2026