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Initiative or Incentive

AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG)

A ministerial and secretary-level group that merges the proposed AI Governance Group with the Economic Survey's AI Economic Council, without the sectoral regulators

INApr 13, 2026 In effect

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

PSA White Paper on Indigenous Foundation Models

PSA white paper (March 2026) mapping India's indigenous foundation model effort and the laws, standards and benchmarks that govern it

INMar 2026 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

PSA techno-legal AI governance white paper

The Principal Scientific Adviser's white paper that builds on MeitY's guidelines, rejects a standalone AI law and proposes technical controls across the AI lifecycle

INJan 2026 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

PSA White Paper on AI Infrastructure

PSA white paper (Version 3.0, 29 December 2025) on treating compute, datasets and models as shared public goods through a phased DPI approach

INDec 29, 2025 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Guideline, Advisory or OrderLandmark

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

INNov 5, 2025 Published

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

INOct 2025 Published

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

INSep 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 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

INFeb 2025 Ongoing

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

INJan 30, 2025 Ongoing

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

INJan 6, 2025 Superseded

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

Telangana AI initiatives

Telangana's layered state AI programme: the 2020 AI Framework and T-AIM, the 2024 AI-Powered Telangana strategy, the TGDeX data exchange and a planned AI City

IN-TSSep 2024 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or IncentiveLandmark

IndiaAI Mission

The Union Cabinet's March 2024 five-year Rs 10,371.92 crore programme for compute, models, datasets, skills, startups and safe AI

INMar 7, 2024 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

TRAI AI & Big Data Recommendations

The telecom regulator's call for a cross-sector, risk-based AI law and an independent "AI and Data Authority of India" (AIDAI)

INJul 20, 2023 Published

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

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

Guideline, Advisory or Order

NITI Aayog Responsible AI (2021)

NITI Aayog's two-part approach document setting seven principles for responsible AI in India, grounded in constitutional morality

INFeb 2021 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or IncentiveLandmark

National Strategy for AI (#AIforAll)

India's first national AI strategy: five focus sectors, CORE and ICTAI research centres, an AI marketplace and the 'AI for All' brand

INJun 2018 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026