{"id":1034704,"date":"2026-09-12T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034704"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:34:52","slug":"gff-2026-fm-sitharaman-on-indias-tech-leap-demographic-dividend-ai-risks-and-road-to-global-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/gff-2026-fm-sitharaman-on-indias-tech-leap-demographic-dividend-ai-risks-and-road-to-global-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"GFF 2026: FM Sitharaman on India\u2019s tech leap, demographic dividend, AI risks and road to global scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s demographic advantage is no longer a promise waiting to be fulfilled; it is increasingly visible in the businesses, technology and platforms being built by its young population, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on September 11. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Sitharaman said India was experiencing its demographic dividend in real time, with young Indians increasingly turning their potential into economic momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s demographic advantage is no longer a promise waiting to be fulfilled; it is increasingly visible in the businesses, technology and platforms being built by its young population, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on September 11. Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Sitharaman said India was experiencing its demographic dividend in real time, with young Indians increasingly turning their potential into economic momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034704","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034731,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034704\/revisions\/1034731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}