# India AI Governance Guidelines (MeitY, 2025)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: India
- **Instrument type**: Guidance
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- **Adopted**: 2025-11-05
- **Published**: 2025-11-05

## In brief

The India AI Governance Guidelines is a non-binding guidance of India, issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Its current status is guidance. Non-binding guidance addressed to government bodies, industry and developers deploying AI in India. 1 obligation is recorded against it, each with its source reference. Penalties: None; non-binding.

## Summary

The India AI Governance Guidelines set out a principle-based, pro-innovation approach to governing AI in India. They articulate guiding principles (such as trust, people-first design, fairness, accountability, safety and transparency), propose an institutional framework including an AI governance group and an AI Safety Institute role, favour applying existing laws over a new AI statute, and recommend voluntary commitments, techno-legal measures, risk-based oversight and incident reporting for AI systems.

## Scope

Non-binding guidance addressed to government bodies, industry and developers deploying AI in India. It does not create legal obligations; it signals regulatory expectations and possible future measures.

## Who it applies to

Indian government agencies, AI developers, deployers and platforms operating in India (voluntary).

## What organisations must do

Nothing mandatory. Organisations can align governance programmes to the guidelines' principles and prepare for voluntary commitments and incident reporting mechanisms they describe.

## Key dates

Consultation on draft guidelines in 2025; final guidelines released November 2025 (to be confirmed).

## Penalties

None; non-binding.

## Obligations recorded against this instrument (1)

- **Adopt the guiding principles and risk-based governance (voluntary)** (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.
  - Binding: no
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/india-ai-guidelines-principles-and-risk-based-governance

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0093 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0093; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/india-ai-governance-guidelines
- **Official source**: https://indiaai.gov.in/
- **Source document**: India AI Governance Guidelines
- **Published by**: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- **Provision**: Direct document link to be added by reviewer
- **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). "India AI Governance Guidelines (MeitY, 2025)" [AIPT-POL-0093, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0093 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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