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Guideline, Advisory or Order

Patent Office AI-use Guidelines

The Indian Patent Office's rules for how its own examiners and Controllers may, and may not, use AI tools, including a ban on entering unpublished applications into…

INAug 7, 2026 In effect

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Rules & Regulations

SC Draft AI Regulations, 2026

The Supreme Court's AI Committee proposes a national framework for AI in courts: human primacy, banned uses, disclosure by litigants, audits and an Apex Body

INJun 3, 2026 Draft

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Guideline, Advisory or Order

Gujarat HC AI Policy

Gujarat High Court bars AI from adjudication and drafting of orders, fixes personal liability on signatories, and later enforces AI norms on State tax officers

IN-GJApr 2026 In force

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

Rajasthan AI/ML Policy 2026

A Cabinet-approved state policy that tops up incentives for AI start-ups, requires departments to find AI use cases and launches a state AI portal and sandbox

IN-RJJan 6, 2026 In effect

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

MahaCrimeOS AI

A Microsoft-based AI copilot for cybercrime investigation, piloted in Nagpur and announced for all 1,100 Maharashtra police stations

IN-MHDec 12, 2025 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Guideline, Advisory or Order

Kerala HC AI Policy

Reported as India's first High Court AI policy for judges: no AI for findings or judgments, no cloud chatbots, audit logs and mandatory training

IN-KLJul 19, 2025 In force

Status checked Oct 15, 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

INJul 9, 2025 Published

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

INMar 6, 2025 Published

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

INMar 6, 2025 Ongoing

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

INDec 2, 2024 Ongoing

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

INOct 15, 2024 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

eCourts Phase III

Union Cabinet-approved Rs 7,210 crore programme to build digital, paperless courts, with AI, OCR and blockchain among its enabling technologies

IN2023 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

NITI Aayog FRT paper (DigiYatra case study)

NITI Aayog's draft discussion paper testing its responsible-AI principles on facial recognition, with DigiYatra as the case study

INNov 2022 Draft

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

BHASHINI

MeitY's public AI language platform for translation, speech and voice in Indian languages, and a core layer of India's digital public infrastructure

INJul 2022 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

Supreme Court AI Initiatives

The tools the Supreme Court uses or is building (SUPACE, SUVAS, transcription, listing, pendency tracking) and the AI Committee that now governs them

INApr 6, 2021 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

Tamil Nadu Safe & Ethical AI Policy

An early Indian state policy that sets ethics tests, a scorecard and procurement rules for AI used by Tamil Nadu government bodies

IN-TN2020 Adopted

Status checked Oct 15, 2026