Timeline of AI law in India

Pillar allocation disclosed

MeitY states the Datasets Platform outlay of Rs 199.55 crore.

Pillar-wise breakdown disclosed

In a Lok Sabha reply MeitY gives the allocation for each pillar, with compute at Rs 4,563.36 crore.

Bidding opens

Nineteen bidders, including Jio Platforms, Tata Communications and Yotta, submit proposals.

Karnataka centre

Karnataka approves Rs 28 crore for a Centre of Excellence in AI in Bengaluru.

Shrijan at IIT Jodhpur

IndiaAI and Meta announce a Center for Generative AI at IIT Jodhpur.

Centres named

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan names IIT Ropar, IIT Kanpur and AIIMS with IIT Delhi as hosts, with a Rs 990 crore budget.

Platform announced

NeGD announces an open platform for hosting datasets, modelled on Hugging Face, to launch by January 2025.

Safety Institute consultation

MeitY consults industry, academia and civil society on an AI Safety Institute under the Safe and Trusted AI pillar.

MeitY consultation

MeitY consults industry, academia and civil society on setting up an AI Safety Institute, described as a standards hub that will not regulate.

Eligibility relaxed

Turnover thresholds are reported cut to Rs 50 crore (primary bidders) and Rs 25 crore (other consortium members) after startup feedback.

BharatGen launched

The Ministry of Science and Technology inaugurates BharatGen, an IIT Bombay-led project for multilingual and multimodal foundation models.

AI-Powered Telangana strategy launched

The AI strategy and implementation roadmap for 2024-2027 is released at the Global AI Summit (5-6 September) in Hyderabad.

Data Management Offices

MeitY says Data Management Offices are being set up, with a Data Management Unit in each department.

ONDC Saarthi

ONDC launches Saarthi, a reference app for building multilingual buyer apps with BHASHINI.

Request for empanelment issued

MeitY invites AI compute and cloud service providers; about 50 entities attend the pre-bid meeting.

Compute empanelment call

The Mission issues a request for empanelment of AI compute and cloud service providers.

Snapdeal MoU and research call

Snapdeal signs an MoU with BHASHINI; MeitY seeks research proposals to improve machine translation.

Delhi High Court records Phase III scanner procurement

In Karan S Thukral v. District & Sessions Judge the High Court records that 724 scanners were procured under e-Courts Phase III.

MARVEL administrative approval

A Government Resolution grants administrative approval for MARVEL, wholly owned by the state.

IndiaAI Mission approved

The Mission includes a unified datasets platform for quality non-personal datasets.

Cabinet approval

The Union Cabinet approves the IndiaAI Mission with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 crore over five years.

MARVEL approved in principle

The Home Department approves the special purpose vehicle to introduce AI in law enforcement.

UiPath partnership

UiPath partners with BHASHINI for Indic-language translation in its automation platform.