Maharashtra sets up three-tier committee structure to implement its AI Policy 2026
A Government Resolution has created steering, executive and technical committees to run Maharashtra's AI Policy 2026, which targets Rs 10,000 crore of investment and 1.5 lakh jobs by 2031. The executive committee will approve incentives for AI projects, and an online portal will handle applications.
Six months after its cabinet approved the Maharashtra AI Policy 2026, the state government has issued a Government Resolution establishing the machinery to implement it. Three committees will oversee the policy: a State Level Steering Committee chaired by the chief secretary, an Executive Committee led by the secretary of the electronics, IT and AI department, and a Technical Committee to vet proposals.
The steering committee sets strategic direction and meets at least once every six months, drawing members from finance, industries, planning, higher and technical education, revenue, energy, and skills and employment. The executive committee is where decisions get made: it approves incentives and subsidies for AI projects, coordinates multi-department initiatives, facilitates partnerships with AI companies and research institutions, and reviews progress quarterly.
The technical committee screens applications for eligibility and compliance, recommends suitable cases upwards and monitors approved projects. An online portal will support the whole process, giving applicants a single channel for submissions and tracking.
The underlying policy is ambitious. It aims to attract Rs 10,000 crore of investment and create more than 150,000 jobs by 2031, and proposes a Maharashtra AI Mission, a State AI Data Exchange, an advanced AI training centre, a Rs 500 crore startup venture fund, twelve incubators, and a 20 per cent subsidy on AI implementation costs for 5,000 MSMEs.
Why it matters
Policy documents are cheap; governance structures with budgets and approval powers are not. By naming the officials who can sanction incentives and setting review cadences, Maharashtra has moved its AI policy from announcement to administration, which is the step at which most state initiatives stall.
Indicops view
For companies planning AI investments or pilots in the state, the executive committee is now the counterpart to engage, and the technical committee's eligibility criteria will shape how proposals must be framed. We expect the MSME subsidy and the data exchange to be the most practically useful levers, and we are helping clients prepare project proposals that map cleanly onto the policy's evaluation criteria.
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