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
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Reports & White Papers
Reports, white papers, working papers, consultation papers and committee recommendations. These inform policy but are not law.
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
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
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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
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
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DPIIT AI Copyright Working Paper
A government committee's proposal for a mandatory blanket licence with statutory royalties for training AI on lawfully accessed copyrighted works
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
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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
Status checked Oct 15, 2026