{"id":1018391,"date":"2026-07-02T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018391"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:33:02","slug":"indias-ai-talent-gap-is-real-growing-and-a-business-crisis-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/indias-ai-talent-gap-is-real-growing-and-a-business-crisis-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s AI Talent Gap Is Real, Growing, and a Business Crisis in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, India had approximately 420,000 AI professionals. The immediate industry requirement was 600,000, representing a talent shortfall of close to 50 per cent. By 2026, a joint report by NASSCOM and McKinsey &amp; Company projected this gap would exceed 1.4 million AI professionals if the pace of upskilling was not dramatically accelerated.<\/p>\n<p>Source: India AI Landscape 2025 Index Report, AISpectrumIndia; NASSCOM-McKinsey Report, cited in AI CERTs, July 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, India had approximately 420,000 AI professionals. The immediate industry requirement was 600,000, representing a talent shortfall of close to 50 per cent. By 2026, a joint report by NASSCOM and McKinsey &amp; Company projected this gap would exceed 1.4 million AI professionals if the pace of upskilling was not dramatically accelerated. Source: India AI Landscape 2025 Index Report, AISpectrumIndia; NASSCOM-McKinsey Report, cited in AI CERTs, July 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018392,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018391\/revisions\/1018392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}