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India AI Regulation Landscape 101

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.

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Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025

Notified by MeitY on November 13, 2025, these rules operationalize the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, establishing a comprehensive and enforceable framework for digital personal data protection in India. The rules were finalized after extensive public consultation on a draft released in January 2025, with MeitY receiving over 4,000 comments and conducting multi-city consultations to incorporate feedback from industry, civil society, and government departments.​

November 2025

Issuing Authority

November 2025

Type of Legal / Policy Document

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Status

Secondary Legislation

Regulatory Stage

Legally binding instruments enforceable before courts

Binding Value

Enacted

Related Long-form Insights on IndoPacific.App

Reimaging and Restructuring MeiTY for India [IPLR-IG-007]

Averting Framework Fatigue in AI Governance [IPLR-IG-013]

Decoding the AI Competency Triad for Public Officials [IPLR-IG-014]

NIST Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomies: Decoded, IPLR-IG-016

AI Bias & the Overlap of AI Diplomacy and Governance Ethics Dilemmas

Artificial Intelligence, Market Power and India in a Multipolar World

Related draft AI Law Provisions of aiact.in

Section 10 – Composition and Functions of the Council

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

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