India, Feb. 23 -- Those outside India's IT industry believe it faces a moment of reckoning, with fears that many jobs in the sector will simply disappear as AI takes over. India's IT czars, however, continue to maintain that such fears are unfounded and the industry will adapt without too much pain. The debate will resolve one way or the other sooner rather than later. In the meantime, the question worth asking is what is at stake for India in this debate. HT parsed various databases to answer this question. Here is what the numbers show.

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