India Sets Up Apex Body for AI Governance
The new group will coordinate AI policy, assess labor-market effects and steer India’s broader governance strategy.
India has set up the AI Governance and Economic Group, or AIGEG, as its top inter-ministerial body for artificial intelligence policy and coordination under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy).
The group, chaired by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw with Minister of State Jitin Prasada as vice chair, gives formal effect to recommendations made in India’s AI Governance Guidelines and the Economic Survey.
The government said AIGEG will coordinate AI policy across ministries, departments and sectoral regulators, promote responsible AI deployment, study emerging risks and regulatory gaps, and develop India’s broader strategy on AI governance.
It will also examine labor-market effects, including jobs likely to be affected, the extent of automation and regional concentration of disruptions.
A Technology and Policy Expert Committee will advise the group on global developments, emerging technologies, risks, regulation and other AI policy priorities.
The move follows India’s AI Governance Guidelines released in November 2025, which called for an inter-ministerial governance body supported by a Technology and Policy Expert Committee as part of a “whole of government” approach.
The guidelines backed a light-touch, risk-based framework that relies largely on existing laws and institutions rather than a standalone AI law.
The Economic Survey for 2025-26 had also argued for a coordinating authority to align AI deployment with labor-market realities and social stability priorities.
