India, Nov. 25 -- The Indian IT sector, now one of the foundational pillar of the country's economy is undergoing a profound and rapid transformation - a "once-in-a-generation reset" driven by the twin forces of automation and Generative AI.

This right now is not a cyclical slowdown but a structural shift that is simultaneously shedding traditional, volume-based roles and creating an entirely new, high-value ecosystem centred on human-machine collaboration.

AI and automation are rapidly taking over routine tasks that formed the bedrock of India's traditional IT services model. Roles most affected are those based on repetition and execution; entry-level coding, manual quality assurance (QA), L1 IT support, and legacy application maintena...