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Group 1 Aris Saldua Manguera Deepali Somra Pitamber Kumar Hjh Rabi'Atul'Adawiyah Hj A Ahmad Suthashini Supramaniam Title: Enhancing AI Readiness in Public Administration: India’s Path Forward with Singapore’s Insights Abstract This report addresses an emerging governance challenge within the technology domain which aligns with the 2025 GSP theme. India stands poised to capitalise on the acceleration of adoption of AI for public good as governments around the world recognise the potential of artificial intelligence to deliver public value and enhance administrative efficiency. However, the tragic failure of an AI-enabled crowd management system at the Mahakumbh Festival exposes deeper governance gaps in public sector AI deployment. Focusing on the Policy Capacity Framework, the report identifies key gaps—analytical, operational, and political— and evaluates the government’s current limitations. The study finds crucial obstacles to successful AI deployment lie in fragmented procurement practices, insufficient risk governance, and resistance and lack of capacity for strategic collaboration with AI among civil servants. Given the inherent nature of AI as an evolving technology, this report also further questions whether India's current procurement system can adequately accommodate the need for an agile framework—one that allows iterative updates, continuous learning, and mid-course corrections in AI deployments. Procurement reforms must ensure that contracts are not rigid but structured to facilitate flexible, adaptive improvements to AI systems over time. Drawing lessons from Singapore’s AI governance model—particularly its outcome-based procurement systems, cross-agency coordination mechanisms, and structured training programmes—this study proposes a tailored AI Readiness Framework for India. The framework prioritises scalable procurement reforms, performance benchmarking, capacity development, and ethics-by-design principles to ensure that AI adoption in India is not only technologically sound but also institutionally resilient.