Newsroom, November 09, 2025: India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released 66-page AI governance guidelines on November 5, outlining a light-touch approach to foster innovation while tackling threats like deepfakes, drawing from global models but tailored for local needs.
The framework promotes principles of accountability, fairness, and transparency, urging firms to label AI-generated content and report risks voluntarily.
An inter-ministerial group will coordinate with regulators like RBI, which launched its own AI ethics panel for banking, and NITI Aayog, to refine laws on copyrights and data use.
The rules build on the IndiaAI Mission, funding GPU access for startups and creating an online safety institute through IIT Madras. Experts see it as a pragmatic start, but stress quick fixes for IP gaps and bias in language models for Hindi and regional tongues.
