MeitY sets up AI Governance and Economic Group to coordinate India's AI policy

What happened: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) constituted the AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG) in April 2026 as the country's central institutional mechanism for coordinating Artificial Intelligence policy. A supporting Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC) was also notified to give the group technical and regulatory inputs.

Why it matters: Until now, India's AI policy was scattered across MeitY's IndiaAI Mission, NITI Aayog's National Strategy for AI, sectoral regulators like RBI and SEBI on AI in finance, the Ministry of Health on AI in medical devices, and the Ministry of Labour on AI's employment impact. Without a single coordinating forum, India's positions on issues like model risk classification, copyright in training data, deepfake regulation and labour-market disruption tended to be fragmented. AIGEG is meant to fix that.

Composition: AIGEG is chaired by the Union Minister for Electronics and IT, with the Minister of State for Electronics and IT as Vice-Chair. Members include the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, the Chief Economic Adviser, the CEO of NITI Aayog, and secretaries of MeitY, Department of Telecommunications, Department of Economic Affairs, and Department of Science and Technology, alongside the National Security Council Secretariat. TPEC, the supporting committee, brings in domain experts from academia and industry.

India angle: The AIGEG sits on top of the IndiaAI Mission, which was approved in 2024 with an outlay of about Rs 10,371 crore over five years and includes IndiaAI Compute, IndiaAI Datasets Platform, IndiaAI Innovation Centre and IndiaAI Application Development Initiative. With AIGEG in place, India enters global AI-governance forums — the Bletchley / AI Safety Summit track, the GPAI, and the UN process — with a single, articulated position rather than ministry-by-ministry stances.

Exam angle: Track AIGEG (chair, vice-chair, structure), TPEC (its advisory role), the IndiaAI Mission outlay (Rs 10,371 crore, 2024), and the four IndiaAI pillars listed above.