The firm “Aspiring minds” released their “National employability report - 2011” recently. The survey covers 22 different states from all the zones (Northern, central, south and east), 250 engineering colleges and 55,000 engineering graduates who completed their degree in 2011.
Even though India produces more than five Lakh engineers annually, only 17.45% of them are employable for the IT services sector, while a dismal 3.51% are appropriately trained to be directly deployed on projects. Further, only 2.68% are employable in IT product companies, which require greater understanding of computer science and algorithms. An economy with a large percent of unemployable qualified candidates is not only inefficient, but socially dangerous. The right training, at one end, and employability assessments acting as feedback at the other, will help both in goal-setting and tracking progress to make a larger proportion of engineers in India employable.
Delhi stands first in this list. The interesting thing is the second place has gone to Bihar and Jharkhand – the two states that are often criticised for being very low on educational reforms, poor literacy rate, Employment woes and slow overall growth.
In Tamil Nadu, just 10 percent of the engineering grads are employable and Karnataka and Kerala are way ahead of TN in the south zone.
Similar to this, another thing that sends some worrying notes to the mind is the state of the pathetic & funny integrated engineering programmes offered by few non – engineering universities. No formal engineering education, lack of required technical infrastructure, zero percent exposure to the real word, abysmal admission process and lacklustre teaching are the key ingredients behind the pseudo engineering universities. A particular programme/course has no offering whatsoever in the Industry as well as in the academia. But students still go for it because they get a bogus pleasure while saying “I am doing a B.Tech/M.Tech/Some-nonsense”.
Compared to Tamilnadu, the engineering colleges in Bihar and Uttarakhand are very less in number. But the students from these states are effectively communicating in English, having the skills required to solve problems and they at their creative best. Even though there are more than 600 engineering colleges in Tamilnadu, we are not able to produce a significant number of employable graduates. Most of the engineering colleges are run by liquor sellers, political mafia and goons. They are doing all possible things to get the approvals and they follow all illicit methods to convince or fool the authorities who visit from accreditation bureaus such as AICTE, NAAC, etc.
The Government should run the Institutions and the private should run the Liquor shops. The vice-versa will create this kind of results.
P.s: All my views expressed here are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of the f***********.
