Govt working with academia to upskill IT workforce amid AI-driven challenges: Vaishnaw

19 Feb 2026 Evaluate

Amid concern over artificial intelligence (AI) eating up jobs, Minister of Electronics and Information technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that the government is aware of AI-driven challenges in the IT sector and is working with academia to upskill, reskill and to build a new talent pipeline for this new intelligence age. 

Referring to a recent policy announcement during the Union Budget, the minister said India aims to attract global data to be processed within the country, delivering high-value digital services worldwide. He said the government has always demonstrated a strong and consistent commitment to clean energy. He noted that India at present has more than 50 per cent of the power generation capacity from the clean sources.

He said ‘our visionary Prime Minister has recently reformed the nuclear energy sector also, which is another very good sector for providing that base load of clean energy. We have a robust grid which has been practically rebuilt over the last one decade.’


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