Agentic AI is the missing link in India’s compliance-heavy economy

By DebDeep Sengupta, Area Vice President, South Asia, UiPath

India operates within a highly regulated environment. Businesses navigate more than 69,000 compliance requirements across central, state, and local laws, creating significant operational complexity across sectors. In FY25, the RBI issued 353 penalties amounting to ₹54.78 crore for non-compliance across regulated entities.
Under India’s new data protection regime, compliance can no longer sit outside operations as a periodic control. It must be integrated into daily workflows, especially in sectors like BFSI, healthcare, and real estate, where documentation requirements are intensive, and customer interactions generate large volumes of sensitive data.

Yet, many organisations still rely on manual work to interpret rules, check outputs, and correct errors. This makes compliance reactive and slow and puts enormous pressure on teams that are already stretched thin. AI helps by automating repetitive, rules-based tasks, handling large volumes of work more ...