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.
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.
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
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".
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 | Month and Year |
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Strengthening AI Governance Through Techno-Legal Framework (White Paper, Part 2 of Emerging Policy Priorities Series) | January 2026 |
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 | January 2026 |
IndiaMART InterMesh Limited v. OpenAI Inc. & Ors., IP-COM/57/2025 (GA-COM/1/2025), Calcutta High Court, Order dated December 24, 2025 | December 2025 |
Democratising Access to AI Infrastructure (White Paper, Version 3.0) | December 2025 |
Working Paper on Generative AI and Copyright (Part 1): "One Nation One License One Payment" | December 2025 |
Raj Shamani v. John Doe & Ors., CS(COMM) 1233/2025, Delhi High Court, Order dated November 21, 2025 | November 2025 |
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 | November 2025 |
India AI Governance Guidelines: Enabling Safe and Trusted AI Innovation | November 2025 |
Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2025 - Draft Rules on Synthetic and AI-Generated Content | October 2025 |
Circular on Use of Open/External Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools for Official Work, File No. Z-11/12/1/Misc.Matter/2024-MSU | October 2025 |
Hrithik Roshan v. Ashok Kumar/John Doe & Ors., CS(COMM) 1107/2025, Delhi High Court, Order dated October 15, 2025 | October 2025 |
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