<h1>Legal checklist for new technical campus launching AI-first engineering programs: approvals, advertising, data protection, contracts, AI ethics compliance</h1> A newly established technical campus inaugurated its first engineering cohort and ran a two-week induction emphasizing industry-linked, AI-first pedagogy, hands-on robotics demonstrations, panels on AI/automation, and parent-faculty engagement. The campus is affiliated with a state university and states AICTE approval, offering BE programs in AI/ML, CSE, IT and ECE. From a legal perspective, the initiative implicates compliance with higher-education regulatory approvals, consumer-protection and advertising accuracy for program claims, data protection and AI-ethics obligations in curriculum and industry projects, and contractual risk management in industry partnerships and placement-related representations.