India need not wait for another scandal to act. By repurposing lessons from Albania, Estonia, and South Korea, and embedding them in our own frameworks, we can craft a future where procurement is corruption-resistant and justice is time-bound.

An AI Minister for Procurement and Justice will not replace human institutions—it will reinforce them. It will give citizens confidence that their taxes are well spent, and restore trust in the judiciary’s ability to deliver.

For a country that prides itself on being the world’s largest democracy, this could be the most consequential governance innovation of our decade.