MeitY has formed the Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC) to advise India's AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG) on policy design, regulation, and global engagement.

The framework is designed to be dynamic and future-oriented to ensure coherence in governance decisions.

AIGEG adopts a whole-of-government approach to craft a coherent national AI strategy, align with labor market realities, enable phased deployment, strengthen regulatory governance, and guide India’s role in global AI governance.

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FAQs outline AIGEG’s purpose, leadership, functions, and potential impact on jobs and the economy.

The way forward calls for stronger institutional capacity, agile regulation, reskilling investments, data governance, ecosystem collaboration, and active global engagement to shape standards while protecting national priorities.

Identified challenges include coordination complexity, rapid tech change, regulatory lag, limited capacity, labor market uncertainty, data privacy concerns, and ethical risks like bias and misinformation.

A policy question on data-sharing protocols between the Ministry of Labour and MeitY to monitor real-time AI-driven job displacement, reflecting labor-alignment for AIGEG.

State-backed BECIL and C-DAC signed an agreement to collaborate on advanced tech, digital transformation, and capacity building in AI, ML, IoT, cyber security, 5G, and cloud computing.

AIGEG will develop a strategic roadmap classifying AI use cases as Deploy, Pilot, or Defer based on data availability, skills, and regulatory readiness.

AIGEG’s mandate extends to acting as the strategic architect for India’s AI future, reviewing mechanisms, ensuring industry-wide compliance, and conducting a Jobs Audit to map automation-displaced roles and worker transition plans.

Key features include a whole-of-government approach, labor-conscious safeguards, TPEC-led advisory on global developments, institutional synergy between AIGEG and TPEC, broad cross-sector participation, and international engagement to inform AI regulation negotiations.