India Creates Apex AI Governance Panel Led by Vaishnaw

Overview

• The government set up the AI Governance and Economic Group to steer national AI policy under IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, with Jitin Prasada as vice chair.
• The panel will coordinate AI rules across ministries and regulators and will oversee compliance in both public and private sectors.
• A Technology and Policy Expert Committee will advise the group on global trends, emerging risks, and regulatory priorities.
• The mandate includes assessing how AI affects jobs and designing plans that help workers shift skills across regions and industries.
• The group will draft a 10-year deployment roadmap that ranks use cases as deploy, pilot, or defer based on data, skills, and legal readiness.