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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

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

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 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

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

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 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