# IndiaAI Mission

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: India
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Union Cabinet approval)
- **Adopted**: 2024-03-07

## In brief

IndiaAI Mission is a non-binding national strategy of India, issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Union Cabinet approval). It was adopted on 7 March 2024. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. A five-year national programme approved by the Union Cabinet with an outlay of about INR 10,372 crore.

## Summary

A five-year national programme approved by the Union Cabinet with an outlay of about INR 10,372 crore. It funds shared public AI compute (10,000+ GPUs), an innovation centre for indigenous foundation models, a datasets platform, application development for public problems, skilling programmes, startup financing and work on safe and trusted AI. Implementation is handled by the IndiaAI division of Digital India Corporation.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Union Cabinet approval). Oversight: IndiaAI Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation, MeitY. Stated purpose: Build sovereign AI compute, data and model capacity and fund the domestic AI ecosystem.

## Key dates

2024-03-07: Cabinet approves IndiaAI Mission with INR 10,371.92 crore outlay; 2025-11-05: MeitY releases India AI Governance Guidelines under the IndiaAI Mission

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0095 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0095; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/india-indiaai-mission
- **Official source**: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2012355
- **Source document**: IndiaAI Mission
- **Published by**: Press Information Bureau, Government of India (Cabinet decision)
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-04
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "IndiaAI Mission" [AIPT-POL-0095, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0095 (accessed 4 November 2026).

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