NITIAayogNITI5BISRoadmap forJob Creation in theAlEconomyKnowledge PartnersBOSTONnasscomBOGCONSULTINGGROUPOctober 2025
expert Council MembersQMr.SandeepPatelMr. ThirumalaArohiMr. Nachiket DeshpandeHead, India and SEA,IBMMamunooruCOO,LTIMindtreeExecutiveVP,Head ofIndiaBusiness and Platforms,Group head-EducationTrainingandAssessment,Mr.AnishMukkerMr.RichardLoboMs.SoniaPantIndia CEO, Teleperformance,ChiefPeopleOfficer,Advisor&ProgramTech MahindraDirector,NITIAayogMr.RajivGuptaMD and SeniorPartner,BCG
Forewordis Al reshapesthe global economy, India stands ata critical juncture: we can either be disrupted byathis wave orlead it with confidence and purooseThe choices wemake today will determine whether welose jobs in India's tech sector by 2031 or create new, Al-enabled opportunities forour vouth.India's strength lies in its people. With over 9 millionechnologyandcustomerexperienceprofessionalsand the world's largest pool of young digital talent, wehave both the scale and the ambition to become the Alworkforce capital of the world. But scale alone is notenough. What we need is urgency, vision, and nationaadation to establish an India AlTalent Mission, in this report is both timely and essentialy across our education system,creating amassivenational reskilling engine,and becoming a magnetforglobalAltalent, wecanturntoday's disruntioninto tomorrow's opportunity,BVR SubrahmanyamCEO.NITIAayog
Foreword lis rewriting the rules of the jpob market-faster thanany policy, curiculum, or company can keep up.The auestion is no longer if iobs will be impactedbut how we respond.By 2031,India's technology sector stands at a crossroadswe could lose 15 million jobs or create up to4million newopportunities. The difference lies in the choices we makeTo help navigate thispivotal moment, NITI Aayog's FrontieraWork-Worker-Workforce lens-showinghow India canconvert disruption into opportunity and become the Aworkforcecaoitalofthe worldsI amdeeplv arateful toBCG and NASSCOM for theipartnership in developing this report, and to the Expertand recommendations.Distinguished Fellow, NIT! Aayog,
Executive Summarylut to the chase:. Al(whether Generativeor Agentic or anyf other form) is ubquitous The prevalent rhetoric is thatmany jobs will be lost. The less prevalent, yet materialbe reolaced by peoole who know how to use Al. and manv newpreviously unheard-of jobs will get created. Whidh wely would th future uniol for jobs in Indias powerhouseuphemism for the development and maintenance ofapplications,infrastructure andotherforms of technoloay) and BPO(operations includingfinance and accounting, customerroll and others). whichare especiallvexposed to Alrisks?a downside. In this worst-aservicessectorcould goillionby 2031.Similarly, thego down from 2 to2.5 million inncreaseratherthandecrease.Thelion, respectively.yunfoldinainthetechsectok-worker-workforce framework, the actionthe evolutionofiobprofiles.and the transformation ofexacerbate the Alrisk high job displacementcomputer sc...
