India AI Governance Guidelines (2025)
India's AI Governance Guidelines (2025): seven sutras for AI developers and deployers, recommendations across infrastructure, capacity building, policy and regulation, risk mitigation, accountability and institutions, including an India-specific risk framework, a national AI incidents database, voluntary frameworks, techno-legal measures, human oversight against loss of control, graded liability and mandatory grievance redressal, an AI Governance Group with an expert committee and the AI Safety Institute, and practical guidelines telling industry to comply with Indian law, demonstrate compliance, adopt voluntary measures, run grievance redressal, publish transparency reports and explore techno-legal tools.
India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) is a compliance framework from India with 3 domains and 23 controls. The largest domains are Part 2: recommendations across six pillars – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) (9 controls), Part 1: the seven sutras – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) (7 controls), Part 4: practical guidelines for industry and regulators – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) (7 controls). Every control below carries what it requires and what an assessor expects to see.
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Framework Domains (3)
Part 1: the seven sutras – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025)
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S1 | Trust is the Foundation: embed trust across the AI value chain |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S2 | People First: human-centric design, human final control and oversight |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S3 | Innovation over Restraint: innovate responsibly, maximising benefit and reducing harm |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S4 | Fairness and Equity: design and test for fair, unbiased, non-discriminatory outcomes |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S5 | Accountability: developers and deployers remain visible and accountable in proportion to function and risk |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S6 | Understandable by Design: clear explanations and disclosures as a core design feature |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::S7 | Safety, Resilience and Sustainability: safeguards, anomaly detection, early warning and resource-efficient models |
Part 2: recommendations across six pillars – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025)
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.1 | Infrastructure: enable adoption through access to data, compute, evaluation datasets and Digital Public Infrastructure |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.2 | Capacity Building: awareness campaigns, training for officials, regulators and law enforcement, and reach into smaller cities |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.3a | Policy and Regulation: agile, principle-based frameworks, a review of existing law, targeted amendments and common standards |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.3b | Policy and Regulation: content authentication standards, regulatory sandboxes, diplomacy and foresight |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.4a | Risk Mitigation: an India-specific risk assessment and classification framework and a national AI incidents mechanism |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.4b | Risk Mitigation: voluntary frameworks, secure-by-design systems, techno-legal measures and safeguards against loss of control |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.5a | Accountability: clarify value-chain roles, impose proportionate obligations, enforce laws and provide compliance guidance |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.5b | Accountability: mandatory grievance redressal with feedback loops, voluntary accountability mechanisms and value-chain transparency |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::2.6 | Institutions: a whole-of-government structure with the AI Governance Group, the Technology and Policy Expert Committee and a resourced AI Safety Institute |
Part 4: practical guidelines for industry and regulators – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025)
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.I.1 | Industry: comply with all applicable Indian laws, including those protecting women, children and vulnerable groups |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.I.2 | Industry: demonstrate compliance when called upon by agencies or sectoral regulators |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.I.3 | Industry: adopt voluntary measures on privacy, security, fairness, inclusivity, non-discrimination and transparency |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.I.4 | Industry: create a grievance redressal mechanism with resolution in a reasonable timeframe |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.I.5 | Industry: publish transparency reports on risk of harm in the Indian context, sharing sensitive content confidentially with regulators |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.I.6 | Industry: explore techno-legal solutions such as privacy-enhancing technologies, machine unlearning, algorithmic auditing and automated bias detection |
| india-ai-governance-guidelines-2025::4.R | Regulators: pursue the twin goals, stay agile, prioritise real harm, avoid compliance-heavy requirements, choose the least burdensome instrument and use techno-legal approaches |
What is India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) and who does it apply to?
India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) is a compliance framework from India with 3 domains and 23 controls. India's AI Governance Guidelines (2025): seven sutras for AI developers and deployers, recommendations across infrastructure, capacity building, policy and regulation, risk mitigation, accountability and institutions, including an India-specific risk framework, a national AI incidents database, voluntary frameworks, techno-legal measures, human oversight against loss of control, graded liability and mandatory grievance redressal, an AI Governance Group with an expert committee and the AI Safety Institute, and practical guidelines telling industry to comply with Indian law, demonstrate compliance, adopt voluntary measures, run grievance redressal, publish transparency reports and explore techno-legal tools. It is used by organisations to establish and maintain compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
What does India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) actually require?
India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) has 23 controls organised across 3 domains. The largest domains are Part 2: recommendations across six pillars – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) (9 controls), Part 1: the seven sutras – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) (7 controls), Part 4: practical guidelines for industry and regulators – India AI Governance Guidelines (2025) (7 controls). Each control defines specific requirements that organisations must implement to achieve compliance.
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