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CEA bats for urgent, holistic reforms to integrate AI, employment
This story was originally published at 13:14 IST on 16 February 2026
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NEW DELHI – Traditionally seen as a threat to jobs, Artificial Intelligence has the potential to improve the state of employment in India, according to Chief Economic Adviser to the Government V. Anantha Nageswaran. Urgent reforms with holistic effort from the government, academia, and the private sector can help India become "the first large society where human abundance and machine intelligence reinforce, and not undermine, each other", Nageswaran said Monday.
"This will not happen by drift; this will require an urgent say. It will require political will, it will require state capacity, and it will require a clear national commitment to aligning technological adoption with mass employability," Nageswaran said at the India AI Impact Summit, where he participated through video conference.
"It will require political will, it will require state capacity, and it will require a clear national commitment to aligning technological adoption with mass employability. It has to be a Team India effort, including the private sector and academics, as well as policymakers," he said.
Nageswaran emphasised that India must undertake urgent reforms to avail the opportunity. "The window is still open, but it is not indefinite," the CEA said. "For India, this is not a debate about the future of work; it is a decision about the future of growth, social stability, and cohesion. We must act, and act now."
He suggested that the first step in the direction is making reforms to education and pedagogy. "That is where the path to co-creating prosperity with AI and employability in the age of AI begins, and that is where the path begins," Nageswaran said. End
Reported by Krity Ambey
Edited by Vandana Hingorani
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