**Executive Summary**
On April 18, 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced the constitution of the Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC). This standing advisory body is designed to provide specialized technical, legal, and strategic expertise to the newly established AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG). The framework aims to ensure India's AI governance is future-forward, adaptive, and aligned with both global practices and national socio-economic contexts.
**Key Points / Main Content**
**Institutional Framework**
* **AIGEG Role:** Responsible for setting the strategic direction and coordinating AI policy across the various branches of government.
* **TPEC Role:** Serves as a standing expert advisory body that translates complex technical and policy issues into actionable insights for the AIGEG.
* **Objective:** To create a dynamic and coherent approach to AI governance, policy design, and regulatory measures.
**Committee Composition and Leadership**
* **Chairperson:** The committee is chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
* **Expertise:** Members are drawn from a selected group of specialists in academic research, the technology industry, and digital policy.
**Core Mandates and Responsibilities**
* **Decision Support:** Provide the AIGEG with expert inputs necessary for well-informed decisions regarding regulatory design and policy frameworks.
* **International Engagement:** Advise on India’s participation and positions in AI governance across international forums.
* **Contextual Alignment:** Ensure that governance deliberations remain responsive to India’s unique strategic, social, and economic context while considering global developments.
**Impact Analysis**
**Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY)**
**Impact**
The Ministry gains a structured, expert-led advisory mechanism to oversee and lead India’s AI governance architecture.
**Action Required**
The Secretary of MeitY must chair the committee and ensure the integration of TPEC’s insights into broader government policy.
**AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG)**
**Impact**
The group will receive specialized technical and strategic guidance to inform its high-level policy decisions and regulatory measures.
**Action Required**
Utilize the subject matter guidance provided by the TPEC to set the strategic direction for AI governance and coordinate policy across government departments.
**Technology Industry and Academic Researchers**
**Impact**
Experts from these sectors are directly integrated into the policy-making process, allowing industry and research trends to influence national regulation.
**Action Required**
Selected experts must provide nuanced understandings of technological developments and global practices to support governance deliberations.
Key Entities Referenced
Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC): A standing expert advisory body tasked with providing technical, policy, and strategic expertise to support India's AI governance.
AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG): An institutional body responsible for setting strategic direction and coordinating AI policy across the government.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY): The primary ministry responsible for constituting the AI governance framework and chairing the TPEC.
AI Governance Guidelines: The policy document that tasks the TPEC with ensuring AI governance deliberations are supported by technological and global practices.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
Government Constitutes Technology and Policy
Expert Committee (TPEC) to Provide Expert
Advisory Support to India’s AI Governance
Architecture
Standing Committee of Technical, Legal and Policy Experts to
Inform AI Governance decisions and advise the newly
constituted AIGEG
Posted On: 18 APR 2026 5:40PM by PIB Delhi
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, has constituted
the Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC), a standing expert advisory body tasked with
providing specialised technical, policy and strategic expertise to support the functioning of the recently
constituted AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG).
As an advisory body for the AIGEG, it will provide the Group with expert inputs necessary to make well-
informed decisions on policy design, regulatory measures and India’s engagements in AI governance
across international forums.
The TPEC, chaired by the Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, brings together a
carefully selected group of experts spanning academic research, the technology industry and digital policy.
The AI Governance Guidelines task the Committee with ensuring that the AIGEG’s governance
deliberations are supported by a contemporary and nuanced understanding of technological developments,
policy approaches, regulatory design and global practices, while remaining responsive to India’s unique
social, economic and strategic context.
Within India’s newly created AI governance architecture, the AIGEG will set the strategic direction and
coordinate policy across government, while the TPEC will provide subject matter guidance by translating
technical and policy issues into actionable insights.
This institutional framework has been designed to enable a dynamic, adaptive and future-forward
approach to AI governance and to ensure strategic, technical and policy coherence in governance
decisions.
For details of composition of the TPEC and Terms of Reference, please refer: https://d12aarmt01l54a.clou
dfront.net/cms/files/constitution-of-tpec/1776447206.pdf
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