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AiACT.IN 

AiACT.IN

Primary Ecosystem Partner

AIACT.IN, originally India's inaugural privately proposed artificial intelligence regulation bill, garnered significant appreciation across multiple sectors of India's technology and policy ecosystem. The initiative received its strongest endorsement from the technology and business communities, with stakeholders recognizing its educational value in fostering democratic discourse around AI standardization and regulation in India's developing AI landscape. The bill's foundational support came from Sanjay Notani, former President of the Advisory Council of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law, who had encouraged Abhivardhan to draft comprehensive AI regulation since 2021, ultimately catalyzing the bill's first version in November 2023.

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In the August 2024 International Law and Technology Conference organised by the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Justice M Sundar, Judge, High Court of Madras (as of August 2024) had also appreciated this effort.

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As of January 2026, AIACT.IN is now a Joint AI Governance Project between the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law and Indic Pacific Legal Research.

The AIACT.IN India AI Regulation Tracker

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This is a simple regulatory tracker consisting all information on how India is regulating artificial intelligence as a technology, inspired from a seminal paper authored by Abhivardhan and Deepanshu Singh for the Forum of Federations, Canada, entitled, "Government with Algorithms: Managing AI in India’s Federal System – Number 70".

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We have also included case laws along with regulatory / governance documents, and avoided adding any industry documents or policy papers which do not reflect any direct or implicit legal impact.

This sankey diagram (created as of October 2025) below gives a picture of India's AI Governance Landscape since 2000 until now. 

You can access the list of AI regulation/ governance sources from India below.

Title
Issuing Authority
Strengthening AI Governance Through Techno-Legal Framework (White Paper, Part 2 of Emerging Policy Priorities Series)
Office of Principal Scientific Adviser (OPSA), Government of India
Flipkart Internet Private Ltd v. Joint Controller of Patents and Designs & Voicemonk Inc., CMA(PT) No. 9 of 2024, Madras High Court, Order dated January 5, 2026
Madras High Court
IndiaMART InterMesh Limited v. OpenAI Inc. & Ors., IP-COM/57/2025 (GA-COM/1/2025), Calcutta High Court, Order dated December 24, 2025
Calcutta High Court (Intellectual Property Rights Division)
Democratising Access to AI Infrastructure (White Paper, Version 3.0)
Office of Principal Scientific Adviser (OPSA), Government of India
Working Paper on Generative AI and Copyright (Part 1): "One Nation One License One Payment"
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Raj Shamani v. John Doe & Ors., CS(COMM) 1233/2025, Delhi High Court, Order dated November 21, 2025
Delhi High Court
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
India AI Governance Guidelines: Enabling Safe and Trusted AI Innovation
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2025 - Draft Rules on Synthetic and AI-Generated Content
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Circular on Use of Open/External Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools for Official Work, File No. Z-11/12/1/Misc.Matter/2024-MSU
Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Ministry of Labour and Employment
Hrithik Roshan v. Ashok Kumar/John Doe & Ors., CS(COMM) 1107/2025, Delhi High Court, Order dated October 15, 2025
Delhi High Court
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Access All Sections of the Draft AIACT.IN Bill.

Section 1 – Short Title and Commencement
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Classification of Artificial Intelligence
Section 4 – Conceptual Methods of Classification
Section 5 – Technical Methods of Classification
Section 6 – Commercial Methods of Classification
Section 7 – Risk-centric Methods of Classification
Section 8 – Prohibition of Unintended Risk AI Systems
Section 9 – High-Risk AI Systems in Strategic Sectors
Section 10 – Composition and Functions of the Council
Section 10-A – Composition and Functions of the Institute
Section 11 – Registration & Certification of AI Systems
Section 12 – National Registry of Artificial Intelligence Use Cases
Section 13 – National Artificial Intelligence Ethics Code
Section 14 – Model Standards on Knowledge Management
Section 15 – Guidance Principles for AI-related Agreements
Section 16 – Guidance Principles for AI-related Corporate Governance
Section 17 – Post-Deployment Monitoring of High-Risk AI Systems
Section 18 – Third-Party Vulnerability Reporting
Section 19 – Incident Reporting and Mitigation Protocols
Section 20 – Responsible Information Sharing
Section 20-A – Transparency and Accountability in AI-related Government Initiatives and Public-Private Partnerships
Section 21 – Intellectual Property Protections
Section 21-A – Data Classification and Localisation Requirements
Section 22 – Shared Sector-Neutral & Sector-Specific Standards
Section 23 – Content Provenance and Identification
Section 24 - Employment and Skill Security Standards
Section 24-A – Right to Artificial Intelligence Literacy
Section 25 – Insurance Policy for AI Technologies
Section 26 – Appeal to Appellate Tribunal
Section 27 – Orders passed by Appellate Tribunal to be executable as decree
Section 28 – Alternate Dispute Resolution
Section 29 – Power to Make Rules
Section 30 – Power to Make Regulations
Section 31 – Protection of Action Taken in Good Faith
Section 32 – Offenses and Penalties
Section 33 – Savings Clause
Section 34 – Power to Remove Difficulties
Section 35 – Amendment of [Other Legislation]

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The contents of the AIACT.IN, i.e., the Draft Artificial Intelligence (Development & Regulation) Bill, 2023 (also may be referred to as the Draft Artificial Intelligence (Development & Regulation) Act, 2023) and the New Artificial Intelligence Strategy for India, 2023 are proposals submitted to the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government  of India.

 

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