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India’s National AI Governance Framework | Sovereignty, Ethics & Global Leadership | IIM Kozhikode PolicyKraft National Winners Deck
How IIM Rohtak designed India’s unified AI governance doctrine covering sovereignty, ethics, and global positioning in one 10-year framework.
1. About the Case Competition
PolicyKraft is IIM Kozhikode’s national policy case competition — one of the most intellectually demanding governance formats in the B-school circuit. Teams design comprehensive national-level policy frameworks addressing real governance challenges. Team Polizy Makers from IIM Rohtak — Anuj Shivhare, Arav Dokania, Hemangini Vyas, and Sangeetha Venkatesh — won the national title by presenting India’s most complete AI governance framework spanning sovereignty, ethics, innovation, and geopolitics.
2. Problem Statement Overview
By 2026, AI is already embedded in India’s welfare systems, policing, fintech, and education — yet regulation remains fragmented across ministries with no unified audit mechanism, no mandatory safety standards, and critical dependence on foreign models, chips, and cloud. India has committed $90B in AI investment and deployed 38,231 GPUs via the IndiaAI Mission, but faces a governance vacuum: no cross-sector risk classification, no grievance architecture, and 48.5% semiconductor imports from China and Hong Kong creating acute geopolitical vulnerability. The challenge is integrating economic growth, ethical safeguards, and technological sovereignty into one coherent national doctrine.
3. What This Deck Covers
The deck operates across three sections — strategic vision, innovation architecture, and ethical safeguards — with a structural discipline that made it one of the most complete policy frameworks in the competition.
The Federated AI Governance architecture is the backbone: coordinated but not centralized, innovation-enabling, and risk-based. The National AI Authority (NAA) sits at the apex, supported by three bodies — the AI Governance Group (AIGG) for interministerial coordination, the Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC) for strategic risk intelligence, and the India AI Safety Institute (AISI) as the technical safety and testing arm.
The Risk Classification Framework maps four tiers — Critical, High, Moderate, Low — with differentiated regulatory actions anchored by the National AI Audit & Compliance Lifecycle: a 5-step process running from registration through incident-triggered regulatory intervention.
On the innovation side, the INDRA Sovereign Model Program — India’s multilingual foundation model with four structured access tiers — and the India Public Compute Grid anchor the sovereignty strategy. The 5-Factor Auditing System and the AI-SAHYOG grievance hotline handle citizen-facing ethical safeguards. The three-tier geopolitical partnership — Advanced Economies, Digital Middle Powers, Global South — closes out the global strategy with export ambitions and norm-setting leadership.
Five things students can take away:
- How to design a Federated AI Governance architecture that enables innovation rather than just enforcing compliance
- How to build a Risk Classification Framework with differentiated regulatory actions mapped to real sector applications
- How to structure a National AI Audit & Compliance Lifecycle with measurable governance checkpoints at each stage
- How to position a three-tier geopolitical partnership strategy that turns governance credibility into global influence
- How to use citizen-facing mechanisms like the AI-SAHYOG grievance hotline to build public trust as a policy KPI
4. The Numbers
IndiaAI Mission Budget: ₹10,372 crore ($1.24B), FY24-29. Semiconductor investment: ₹1.60 lakh crore ($19.2B) approved through 2030. GPUs deployed: 38,231 as of Feb 2026. 2035 targets: 8-10% AI GDP share, $120B+ AI exports, 25M workforce reskilled, 12,000+ AI startups, 30 sovereign models, 50GW AI compute capacity, 40+ global AI partnerships. Infrastructure targets by 2032: 8 regional compute hubs, 5 sovereign data centers, 20+ AI sandbox nodes.
5. Who Should Study This Deck
Essential for students targeting governance, policy, or consulting competitions involving national-level strategy design. You will learn how to build multi-pillar policy frameworks with institutional architecture, risk classification, audit lifecycles, and geopolitical strategy all working as one coherent structure. Strong reference for anyone preparing for IIM, XLRI, or MDI-hosted policy competitions. Explore more winning frameworks at CaseBuzz.
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