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LIGO-India is a planned gravitational-wave detector to be built in India, to complement LIGO in the US and other GW detectors worldwide. Planning is by an Indian GW-astronomy consortium named INDIGO (for Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations). The project was approved in principle by the Indian government in 2016 and received budget approval in 2023, with the aim of completion around 2030. Undoubtedly, the considerable resources necessary to build and operate it led to lengthy consideration of whether, when, and how it would be budgeted. The presence of a number of such detectors around the world increases their science-value, both to confirm GW detections and improving their localization.