Nodal Officer - AI Governance - Bhakra Beas Management Board, Ministry of Power, Government of India
Bringing governance discipline to the technology that runs India's water and power systems, and helping the public sector adopt artificial intelligence in a way that is accountable, secure, and worthy of public trust.
Two disciplines that rarely sit together: the engineering rigour of mission-critical systems and the policy literacy of public governance.
Shweta Nagpal is an Assistant Engineer (Computer System) with the Bhakra Beas Management Board, under the Ministry of Power, where she is responsible for the software and data infrastructure behind some of the country's most critical water and power assets. She was designated by the Chairman, BBMB as Nodal Officer for AI Governance, leading the organisation's alignment with the IndiaAI Mission and the MeitY AI Governance Guidelines.
Across nearly a decade in government and public-sector undertakings, her work has run from the technical to the strategic: building secure enterprise platforms, modernising procurement through national portals, and translating policy into practice that holds up to audit and scrutiny. Earlier roles at PSTCL and on the TCS-Punjab Government DigiGov programme established her grounding in large-scale e-governance and the realities of digitising the state.
She holds an M.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, and approaches every system the same way, as something the public ultimately depends on.
Turning the IndiaAI Mission and MeitY's AI Governance Guidelines into something a public institution can act on: risk frameworks, ethical guardrails, and adoption pathways that civil servants can apply, not just cite.
Planning, building, and maintaining the enterprise systems and data centres behind national water and power infrastructure, with reliability, resilience, and security treated as first-order requirements.
Implementing eOffice, the Government e-Marketplace, and integrated workflow and document systems that replace paper with auditable, transparent process across multi-state administration.
Serving as implementing nodal officer for the Central Public Procurement Portal, running government procurement to a standard of full auditability and aligning institutional practice with national policy.
Technology in government is never just technical: every system we build is something the public ultimately depends on.Shweta Nagpal
Moving the conversation from principles to enforceable practice, so that public-sector AI is explainable, contestable, and accountable to the people it serves.
Hardening the digital backbone of national water and power systems against failure and threat, where downtime is never an acceptable outcome.
Equipping institutions and their people to govern technology, not merely procure it, building the internal literacy that responsible adoption depends on.
Treating how the state buys technology and stewards its data as instruments of good governance in their own right: transparent, auditable, defensible.
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Recordings from recent capability-building cohorts and workshops on AI governance and public-sector technology.
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