India, July 27 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

IndiaAI Mission: India's AI policy is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of democratizing technology. It is aimed at creating economic opportunities and employment for youth, while addressing risks associated with AI.

Accordingly, the Government approved the IndiaAI Mission in March 2024 with an outlay of Rs.10,371 crore over five years to build a comprehensive AI ecosystem in the country.

The Mission comprises seven pillars viz. IndiaAI Compute, Foundation Models, AIKosh, IndiaAI

Application Development Initiative, FutureSkills, Startup Financing, and Safe & Trusted AI.

Progress under IndiaAI mission till date:

AI models: Government of India is supporting Indian startups and institutions to develop large language models. 20 indigenous sovereign model proposals have been identified for support, comprising 12 LLMs and 8 SLMs. Notable successes so far include:

Domain-specific SLMs, including specialized models and AI frameworks addressing healthcare, language technologies and agentic AI systems are at various stages of development and deployment.

Affordable compute:

Application Development:

Talent development:

IndiaAI labs:

AI Centres of Excellence:

58 Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence (AI-CoEs) being established across States and Union Territories in collaboration with the respective State/UT Governments and industry partners.

Safe & Trusted AI pillar

At the same time, the Government is also cognizant of the risks associated with AI. The Safe & Trusted AI pillar of the IndiaAI Mission aims to promote the responsible development, deployment and adoption of AI through indigenous governance frameworks, standards, tools and evaluation mechanisms.

13 Responsible AI projects have been approved in educational institutions across the country. These include topics such as bias mitigation, machine unlearning, privacy-preserving AI, explainability, deepfake detection and AI risk assessment.

Key initiatives include:

Nature & Objectives of projects related to bias mitigation, explainability, privacy preserving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning:

Overall, these projects are aimed at making AI fairer, more transparent, privacy-preserving, secure and trustworthy.

* The AI Safety Institute has been established for AI safety, security and developing trust with diverse stakeholders, engaging academia, startups, industry and Government bodies through a hub-and-spoke model.

* The India AI Governance Guidelines lay down a risk-based governance framework addressing algorithmic bias, misinformation, deepfakes and unintended societal harm, and propose institutional mechanisms including the AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG), Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC) and AI Safety Institute (AISI) for oversight, standards and safety research.

The IndiaAI Safety Institute was announced in January 2025 to advance science-based and indigenous research on AI safety and governance. The Institute is responsible for promoting the safe, secure, inclusive and trustworthy development, deployment and adoption of AI in India.

It also oversees the implementation of projects selected under the two rounds of Expressions of Interest (EoIs) under the Safe & Trusted AI pillar.

India's approach to responsible AI is anchored in the vision of "AI for All". It seeks to harness AI for inclusive development while ensuring that it remains safe, trusted, and aligned with India's socio-economic priorities.

These outcomes reflect India's commitment to shaping global norms on AI governance while protecting its strategic and developmental interests.

This information was submitted by Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in Rajya Sabha on 24.07.2026.

Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.