New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), along with the government’s IndiaAI Mission, launched the India AI Governance Guidelines on 5 November. These guidelines are a national framework to promote safe, inclusive and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence across sectors.
The framework was unveiled by Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, in the presence of MeitY Secretary S Krishnan and Additional Secretary Abhishek Singh, who is also the CEO of IndiaAI Mission.
Senior officials, including Dr Preeti Banzal and Dr Parvinder Maini from the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser and Prof B Ravindran from IIT Madras, also attended the event.
The guidelines consist of four components. Seven guiding “Sutras” for ethical AI, recommendations across six pillars of governance, a time-bound action plan and practical measures for industry, developers, and regulators to ensure transparency and accountability in AI deployment.
Drafted by a high-level committee chaired by Prof Balaraman Ravindran of IIT Madras, the framework involved experts from academia, industry and government, including Abhishek Singh, Debjani Ghosh (NITI Aayog), Kalika Bali (Microsoft Research India), Rahul Matthan (Trilegal) and Sharad Sharma (iSPIRT Foundation).
India aims to adopt a light-touch regulatory approach – leveraging existing laws while ensuring disclosure of synthetic content and maintaining flexibility to respond to emerging AI technologies, aligning innovation with public trust and ethical responsibility.
