AI Observatory

National Strategy & Missions

NITI Aayog's #AIForAll strategy, the IndiaAI Mission and national AI programmes.

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Court rulings
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Acts, rules & regulations
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Policies & frameworks
2

Guidelines, Advisories & Orders2 entries

Reports & White Papers7 entries

Report or White Paper

White Paper: Advancing Indigenous Foundation Models

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

INIndia (Union) ·Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Mar 2026 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

White Paper: Democratising Access to 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

INIndia (Union) ·Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of…
Dec 29, 2025 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Report or White Paper

Roadmap on 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

INIndia (Union) ·NITI Aayog (Frontier Tech Hub)
Oct 2025 Published

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiatives & Incentives11 entries

Initiative or Incentive

AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG), constituted by MeitY on 13 April 2026

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

INIndia (Union) ·Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Apr 13, 2026 In effect

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

AIKosh: the IndiaAI Datasets Platform

India's national repository of datasets, AI models and use cases, built under the IndiaAI Mission with permission-based access

INIndia (Union) ·IndiaAI division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology…
Mar 6, 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

INIndia (Union) ·Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), IndiaAI…
Jan 30, 2025 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

Telangana's AI Framework, AI Mission, AI Strategy and AI City (2020-2026)

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-TSTelangana ·Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C)…
Sep 2024 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or IncentiveLandmark

IndiaAI Mission (Rs 10,371.92 crore national AI programme)

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

INIndia (Union) ·Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY);…
Mar 7, 2024 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

eCourts Mission Mode Project, Phase III (2023-2027)

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

INIndia (Union) ·Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice (with the…
2023 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

Initiative or Incentive

BHASHINI and the National Language Translation Mission

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

INIndia (Union) ·Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), through…
Jul 2022 Ongoing

Status checked Oct 15, 2026