Government to upskill, reskill IT workforce amid AI challenges: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Government plans to upskill IT workforce to tackle AI challenges, aiming to attract global data processing to India, says Vaishnaw.

“The government is aware of the challenges that the Indian IT industry is facing due to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is working with academia to upskill and reskill talents,” Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday (February 19, 2026).

During his welcome address at the inaugural session of India AI impact Summit 2026, Mr. Vaishnaw said that the Prime Minister, in the Union Budget, has announced a very big policy shift aimed at attracting world's data to India, to reside in India, to be processed here and to deliver high-value services to the world.

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"We are also conscious of the challenges which are facing our IT industry and to mitigate it we are working with the industry and academia to upskill, reskill and to build a new talent pipeline for this new intelligence age," Mr. Vaishnaw said.

He said the Prime Minister has always shown commitment towards clean energy, and India at present has more than 50% of the power generation capacity from the clean sources.

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