New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- India's AI policy is a W.I.P.-a push-pull strategy - if you may - that aligns with its "light touch" approach towards a technology can potentially reshape the economy and the society.

That push-pull strategy shows up in two key policy decisions.

The moves tie in neatly with how Union Budget 2026 sees AI-from treating it as "standalone experiment" to embedding it as a foundational layer for Viksit Bharat. That begins with fixing social media and building startups.

The Economic Survey 2025-26 and Union Budget 2026-27 place India's "orange economy" firmly on the growth map, recognising creativity, culture and intellectual property as economic drivers.

A Rs.250-crore allocation for animation, visual effects, gaming a...