Without measuring contextual failure, India’s AI governance risks mistaking computational sophistication for genuine public utility. India’s AI governance framework has a measurement problem. The India AI Mission has onboarded more than 38,000 GPUs, allocated Rs 10,300 crore for AI infrastructure, and built AIKosh into a national dataset repository holding 7,541 datasets across 20 sectors. MeitY’s India AI Governance Guidelines, released on 5 November 2025, commit the governm