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India needs 8M new jobs annually to avoid social instability
  • Current formal skill training covers only small portion of workforce
  • AI displacement could outpace reskilling efforts
  • Requires coordinated national effort across private sector, academia and policymakers
Anantha NageswaranANI News00:07:27

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India needs to create at least 8 million jobs annually. This is the scale of our employment challenge year after year. Anantha Nageswaran
If AI displaces faster than we can skill humans...we risk squandering our demographic window. Anantha Nageswaran

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AI as India's Demographic Stress Test

The Chief Economic Adviser frames AI adoption as a critical stress test for India's ability to capitalize on its demographic dividend, requiring urgent reforms across education, skilling, and labor-intensive sectors.

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