India, Nov. 9 -- INDIA AI GOVERNANCE GUIDELINES

Imagine a farmer in rural Bihar, her fingers tracing the screen of a smartphone, diagnosing crop disease in Bhojpuri. or perhaps a small-town entrepreneur in Tamil Nadu accessing the same powerful AI tools as those wielded by tech giants in Bengaluru. This isn't merely a distant dream, it's the vision pulsating through India's new AI Governance Guidelines, a blueprint attempting to weave artificial intelligence into every Indian life, not merely the privileged few.

Released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), these guidelines represent a governance framework that treats technology not as a problem to be controlled, but as a force multiplier for national devel...