# MeitY releases the India AI Governance Guidelines

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2025-11-05
- **Jurisdiction**: India
- **Instrument**: India AI Governance Guidelines (MeitY, 2025)
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Guidance

## What changed

The guidelines set out principles, an institutional framework and recommendations favouring existing-law enforcement, voluntary commitments and risk-based oversight over a new AI statute.

## What it means in practice

Indian AI developers and deployers have a reference for regulator expectations; no new binding duties.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2025-11-05-india-ai-governance-guidelines
- **Official source**: https://indiaai.gov.in/
- **Source document**: India AI Governance Guidelines
- **Published by**: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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