Rajesh Gowda Launches AI Tour India 2026 from Hyderabad
In rural villages across India, a young person who graduates from a government college has one realistic gateway into the formal economy a BPO or IT-enabled services role. That first paycheck often becomes the first formal salary a family has ever earned. It is how a village joins the national economy. And it is quietly disappearing.
While governments deliberated and corporations restructured, one founder chose to act. Mr. Rajesh Gowda, Founder and CEO of Zues Vision Tech, spent months conducting deep, independent research into this crisis analysing government data analytics to map exactly how fast India’s first-generation jobs are being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
On 13 April 2026, at T-Works Hyderabad, that research became a national movement. Rajesh Gowda delivered the Inaugural National Address of AI Tour India 2026 India’s first AI Workforce Transformation Tour. Entirely self-funded by Zues Vision Tech. No government grants. No corporate sponsorship. One company. One founder. One mission.
“Our students are graduating with 2015 skills into a 2026 economy. Nobody is walking into their government colleges to tell them the truth. So we will.”
— Mr. Rajesh Gowda, Founder & CEO, Zues Vision Tech
The urgency of Rajesh Gowda’s mission is confirmed by the national data. IT fresher hiring has collapsed 80 percent in three years — from 600,000 in FY22 to 120,000 in FY25 (Xpheno, March 2026). Only 42.6 percent of Indian graduates are employable, with Tier-3 government colleges at 43.4 percent (Mercer|Mettl 2025). Over 35 percent of graduates under 25 are unemployed.
In Telangana and Andhra Pradesh alone, 146,000 students graduate from government colleges annually yet fewer than 5 percent of these colleges offer any AI education. Recent events including Oracle’s termination of an estimated 12,000 Indian employees in a single morning on 31 March 2026, and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s declaration at the Government’s AI Impact Summit that “BPO will be gone by 2030” have only underscored what Gowda’s research had already revealed months earlier.
Yet within the same crisis lies an extraordinary opportunity. India will need 1.21 million additional AI professionals by 2028. Many of these roles — data annotators, prompt engineers, AI quality analysts — require only 2 to 8 weeks of training and demand the exact competencies BPO workers already possess.
AI Tour India 2026 is a Rajesh Gowda initiative in its entirety envisioned, architected, and built from scratch by the Founder and CEO of Zues Vision Tech. Every element of this mission the research, the framework, the curriculum, the 10-day delivery model, and the national rollout strategy was developed by Gowda and his team at Zues Vision Tech. It is a rare example in India of a founder identifying a national crisis through independent research, building the solution with his own resources, and taking it to the ground without waiting for institutional permission or external funding.
Standing alongside as its Supporting Partner is Mr. Venkata Sriram, Founder and CEO of Evaluators, on a mission to eradicate the barbaric pay-to-join hiring practices in Hyderabad’s IT sector. Mr. Venkata Sriram and his Evaluators team have brought genuine commitment to this journey across every state and every classroom. Their journey of standing up for the workforce mirrors ours — and that shared purpose is what makes this partnership real.
The tour delivers 10-day intensive programmes at government colleges — covering AI fundamentals, hands-on tool training, personalised career roadmaps, direct industry connections, and a hiring referral pipeline.
Year One targets: 8 states, 50+ institutions, 10,000+ students.
On 13 April 2026, at T works was the launch. Today, the real work begins.
