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

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In this screengrab from a video posted connected February 19, 2026, Union Minister of Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw addresses the gathering during the India AI Impact Summit 2026, successful New Delhi. Photo Credit: X/@NarendraModi via PTI

“The authorities is alert of the challenges that the Indian IT manufacture is facing owed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is moving with academia to upskill and reskill talents,” Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said connected Thursday (February 19, 2026).

During his invited code astatine the inaugural league of India AI interaction Summit 2026, Mr. Vaishnaw said that the Prime Minister, successful the Union Budget, has announced a precise large argumentation displacement aimed astatine attracting world's information to India, to reside successful India, to beryllium processed present and to present high-value services to the world.

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"We are besides conscious of the challenges which are facing our IT manufacture and to mitigate it we are moving with the manufacture and academia to upskill, reskill and to physique a caller endowment pipeline for this caller quality age," Mr. Vaishnaw said.

He said the Prime Minister has ever shown committedness towards cleanable energy, and India astatine contiguous has much than 50% of the powerfulness procreation capableness from the cleanable sources.

"Our visionary Prime Minister has precocious reformed the atomic vigor assemblage also, which is different precise bully assemblage for providing that basal load of cleanable energy. We person a robust grid which has been practically rebuilt implicit the past 1 decade," Mr. Vaishnaw said.

Published - February 19, 2026 11:39 americium IST

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