# Adopt the guiding principles and risk-based governance (voluntary)

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: India AI Governance Guidelines (MeitY, 2025)
- **Jurisdiction**: India
- **Category**: governance_accountability
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: Guiding principles and recommendations sections

## In brief

Adopt the guiding principles and risk-based governance (voluntary) is a voluntary measure under the India AI Governance Guidelines in India (Guiding principles and recommendations sections). The guidelines encourage organisations to embed principles such as fairness, accountability, safety and transparency, to classify and mitigate risks proportionately, and to participate in voluntary frameworks and incident reporting.

## What the duty requires

The guidelines encourage organisations to embed principles such as fairness, accountability, safety and transparency, to classify and mitigate risks proportionately, and to participate in voluntary frameworks and incident reporting.

## What an organisation does about it

Map your existing AI governance programme to the guidelines' principles and note the gaps.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- AI risk assessment and lifecycle risk register (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-risk-assessment

## Parent instrument

- India AI Governance Guidelines (MeitY, 2025)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/india-ai-governance-guidelines
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/india-ai-governance-guidelines.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0048 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0048; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/india-ai-guidelines-principles-and-risk-based-governance
- **Official source**: https://indiaai.gov.in/
- **Provision**: Guiding principles and recommendations sections
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Adopt the guiding principles and risk-based governance (voluntary) (India AI Governance Guidelines)" [AIPT-OBL-0048, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0048 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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