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AI Models in India Will Require MeitY Approval, Government Says in Advisory: Report

2:10 PM IST · September 9, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) models and generative AI models that are in any phase of testing or unreliable in any way will need to receive “explicit permission of the government of India” before it is deployed in India, India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ( MeitY ) issued in an advisory, as per reports. The advisory comes just days after some users found that Google's Gemini AI chatbot was responding with inaccurate and misleading information regarding the Prime Minister of the country.

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