{"id":993413,"date":"2026-02-18T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993413"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:48:38","slug":"vaishnaw-urges-it-firms-to-reskill-workforce-amid-ai-driven-market-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/vaishnaw-urges-it-firms-to-reskill-workforce-amid-ai-driven-market-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaishnaw urges IT firms to reskill workforce amid AI-driven market concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As the share prices of Indian IT companies continue to decline amid fears of artificial intelligence-led disruption, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked companies to reskill and upskill their existing talent. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the minister said the government is working closely with industry and academia to manage the transition to AI-driven technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As the share prices of Indian IT companies continue to decline amid fears of artificial intelligence-led disruption, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked companies to reskill and upskill their existing talent. Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the minister said the government is working closely with industry and academia to manage the transition to AI-driven technologies.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993413","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=993413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}