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80% Engineers In India Are Unemployable: The State Of Engineering Graduates

The average graduate's "ability to comprehend and converse is very low," says Satya Sai Sylada, 24/7 Customer's head of hiring for India. "That's the biggest challenge we face."

Wipro runs an even longer, 90-day training program to address what Mr. Govil, the human-resources executive, calls the "inherent inadequacies" in Indian engineering education. The company can train 5,000 employees at once.


This is quite consistent with what I have observed here, and it may explain why there are so many ridiculous tall claims from their brass and keyboard warriors alike.
 
This is quite consistent with what I have observed here, and it may explain why there are so many ridiculous tall claims from their brass and keyboard warriors alike.
ask anyone from Alibaba, Huawei or Xiaomi, who are sent to India supervising in R&D sectors, they will tell you where India actually stands in IT world```amateurs```they have to send PMs, software architects and DBAs from China to assist them
 
ask anyone from Alibaba, Huawei or Xiaomi, who are sent to India supervising in R&D sectors, they will tell you where India actually stands in IT world```amateurs```they have to send PMs, software architects and DBAs from China to assist them


I have read some of these stories, and one of them was written by a German engineer whose company provided diesel engines for both Arjun MK1 and Type-96 back in 90's. His comments on the quality of Chinese and Indian engineers were astonishing.
 
This is what happens when after Plus Two all these youngsters jumping for Engineering. I see that the trend is changing especially in southern states. Engineers competing for Bank jobs and for loco pilot jobs or as direct marketeers and even worst. This is happening now.
 
This is what happens when after Plus Two all these youngsters jumping for Engineering. I see that the trend is changing especially in southern states. Engineers competing for Bank jobs and for loco pilot jobs or as direct marketeers and even worst. This is happening now.
Yes its changing and for the good. Engineering and MBA are losing popularity. Today many youngsters are choosing other fields and putting greater emphasis on the choice of the subjects they like.
 
Blanket statements only speak of one's lack of knowledge and exposure. Perfect definition of a troll-bait. :-)

Because of recent Hindutva media trumpeting about GDP increases and other infrastructural development, Indians have started to believe their country is in better shape than neighboring countries including educational indicators.The educational superiority statement stems from a large misconception in most Indians about the actual state of their country (rural India) which most of them have little idea of. If you ignore basic items like immunization and elementary education, what good will it do having IITs? How many upper middle class engineers will go into riveting airplanes or assembling TVs/Refrigerators?

India has its work cut out on *basic* problems to solve that neighboring countries with half the GDP have already solved, before it can claim to be a superpower, in spite of having 'unequal growth'. Read this from your own media. I'll be happy when it exceeds Bangladesh on *basic* indicators like more girls vs. boys in school....(please visit the link at the end, live graphs cannot be linked).

"In the serious game of saving the lives of infants from disease and death, Bangladesh has been outperforming India for more than 15 years.


Bangladesh’s current Infant Mortality Rate, at 33 infant deaths per 1000 live births, is less than India. Both countries have seen a decline in their IMR, but Bangladesh, which used to be worse than India at saving lives until 1997, has improved its strike rate of saving lives faster than India since then.

This has been possible because saving lives and reducing disease have received greater attention in Bangladesh. For instance, the use of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) to prevent deaths from cholera and diarrhea was pioneered in Bangladesh. Similarly, the rapid decline of open defecation in Bangladesh has made the disease environment much better, resulting in lower prevalence of disease causing germs, and thus, lesser deaths.


As fecal germs are sent back to the pavilion in underground pits below toilets, Bangladeshis are able to score more years in their lives.

Open defecation in Bangladesh was lower than India in all the years for which data is available. Open defecation in Bangladesh has also declined faster in the country. According to data compiled by WHO and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme, just 2.5% of Bangladeshis don’t own a toilet. Compare that to India, where 48.3% of the population does not own a toilet. Kids in Bangladesh, when they play outdoors, are not exposed to as many germs as they are in germ-heaven India.

Another way to save babies from dying is by immunizing them against infectious diseases. Bangladesh performs better in this arena as well, delivering shots early and when needed. Two graphs below show the proportion of children aged 12-23 months immunized against Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus (DPT), and measles. In both the graphs, Bangladesh which was lagging behind on its immunization coverage of the two vaccines went past India in the late 80s. Since then, Bangladesh has been continuously improving.



The World Bank’s World Development Indicators show a flat line for India’s immunisation indicators after 2008. This is because no data on immunisation coverage has been released. Unlike the Indian government, which neither monitors nor reports immunisation coverage promptly, Bangladesh has been carrying out regular Demographic and Health surveys, which have helped monitor the country’s progress in immunisation and identify areas that need more attention. Recently leaked data on India’s immunisation coverage only seeks to confirm that immunisation coverage has in fact stagnated in India.

These development achievements of Bangladesh were first highlighted prominently by economists Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, in their book An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions. They also pointed out that Bangladesh was doing much better than India at gender indicators.

The following graph shows the ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education. Bangladesh, similar to other development indicators started behind India but later surpassed India and maintains its lead. In India, the ratio of girls to boys in education is favourable to boys, but in Bangladesh, it is favorable to girls. Girls beat boys, and Bangladesh beats India.


A result of this improvement in the lives of women in Bangladesh has been that their choices have expanded, and fertility rates have declined. Many Indians have a misconception that the fertility rate among Muslims is bound to be high. Bangladesh, which has a majority Muslim population, has had a lower fertility rate than India for the past 15 years. The following graph shows an over-time comparison of the total fertility rate between the two countries.


These improvements in Bangladesh have been happening despite the fact that Bangladesh is much poorer than India.


The graph above shows per capita GDP, in international PPP dollars, in India and Bangladesh over the years. India’s GDP graph rises steeply, which means it has enjoyed faster growth than Bangladesh. Despite being poorer, Bangladesh has a lower infant mortality rate, much less open defecation, higher immunisation, and better gender indicators than India. Brand endorsements that help players make money do not a good cricketing team make, and as these graphs show, higher GDP growth does not always lead to a better quality of life for a nation’s citizens.

If we were as obsessed with our healthcare, we would probably have a nation of healthier citizens today. Most newspapers reserve at least four pages every day for sports coverage, most of which is cricket. People take time off work to cheer their team which spends at least a quarter of the year playing. Bad performance leads to calls for resignation of team captains, but bad performance on health or gender indicators has not led to the demand for resignations of Indian bureaucrats or politicians.

So perhaps, as citizens, we need to pay as much attention to health, gender, and education as we pay to cricket. You know who the captain of India’s cricket team is. Do you know who India’s sanitation, health, or rural development ministers and secretaries are, and what they have been up to?

Aashish Gupta and Nikhil Srivastav are researchers with the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics."

http://thewire.in/5101/india-v-bangladesh-in-8-charts/

Read this too:
http://www.indiawest.com/news/globa...cle_81d46666-43ee-5066-84f0-6f0754e16af2.html

Number of Indian university in QS world top engineering: 8
Number of Pakistani and Bangladeshi: 0.

http://www.topuniversities.com/univ...-subject-rankings/2016/engineering-mechanical

BTFO
 
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/engineering-employment-problems/1/713827.html

Only 7 per cent engineering graduates employable: What's wrong with India's engineers?
A New Delhi-based employment solutions company, Aspiring Minds, conducted an employability-focused study based on 150,000 engineering students and found barely 7 per cent suitable for core engineering jobs. India Today spoke to Siddarth Bharwani, Vice President at Jetking Infotrain Limited, to shed more light on the issue.
A New Delhi-based employment solutions company, Aspiring Minds, conducted an employability-focused study based on 150,000 engineering students who graduated in 2013. The findings were rather shocking.

As many as 97 per cent of graduating engineers want jobs either in software engineering or core engineering. However, only 3 per cent have suitable skills to be employed in software or product market, and only 7 per cent can handle core engineering tasks.

According to the HRD ministry, India has 6,214 engineering and technology institutions which are enrolling 2.9 million students. Around 1.5 million engineers are released into the job market every year. But the dismal state of higher education in India ensures that they simply do not have adequate skills to be employed.

So, what can happen when such a large population of youth do not get jobs? Experts say that this may cause serious instability in the economic and social conditions in the country, along with wide scale dissatisfaction and disillusionment.

Though the quantity of universities, colleges and programmes are going on increasing in the country, the lack of quality education persists. Profit-hungry managements, lack of skill education, resplendent corruption, focus on rote-learning methods, and shortage of faculty (both in quantity and quality) are the major issues plaguing higher education. Graduates are collecting their degrees despite not being skilled enough to be a productive part of the Indian economy.

India Today got together with Siddarth Bharwani, Vice President at Jetking Infotrain Limited, an IT and IMS training institute, to know more about the issues contributing to such a dismal picture.

Factors working behind an engineer's employability:

According to Bharwani, the following factors decide whether an engineer is employable:

  • "The ability to apply the concepts learnt to constantly develop innovative things and find solutions to complex problems are main factors working behind the employability of an engineer."
  • "The state of the economy also plays a major role for employment generation. Industry insiders say that in a strained economic condition, companies do not want to spend much on training and would prefer candidates with some skill sets who can be made billable soon."
  • Location factor: According to the Aspiring Minds report, in Tier-1 cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, 18.26 per cent of software engineers are job ready, while in Tier-2 cities such as Pune, Nagpur and Surat, 14.17 per cent are employable.
This shows that the candidates from lower tier cities are not getting the same opportunities as those hailing from Tier-1 cities, even if they are equally qualified and skilled. The chances of finding a job for such a person is 24 per cent lower and the earning per-year salary would also be Rs 66,000 lesser."Basically the Tier 3 cities are the one with the lowest employability rate. This is because of the insufficient infrastructure for developing skilled specific knowledge," says Bharwani
  • "Problems with English language along with issues in computer programming make these students ineligible for employment. The difference in English and cognitive skill modules may only be a function of the input quality of the students. There is a consistent trend that the maximum gap is in computer programming, followed by cognitive skills and English and least in other domain skills."

Major problems with engineering education in India:

Syllabus not updated regularly:


The course contents do not focus on areas which will actually help in the job industry after employment. There is a big gap between what the market needs and what Indian education equips its future employees with. Despite exponential changes in science and technology round the world, the syllabus is hardly ever updated.

"For instance, while mobile computing is proving to be the next growth driver for the industry, the curriculum does not reflect it," says Bharwani.

Even when new branches of engineering are added, the structure remains traditional-this simply does not work anymore!

"The traditional education sector in India has not evolved at the same pace as the industry. The expectations that the companies have from their candidates and the skills that engineering graduates bring in, do not match," he adds.


Lack of quality teachers:

There are more than 33,023 colleges in India granting degrees. There are not enough quality teachers for all of these educational institutes.

After multinational companies, the IT big shots of India, and the smaller engineering companies have had their pick, many from the remaining engineering graduates go on to get a PhD and join as faculty at engineering institutes. Thus, unlike other parts of the world, the Indian faculty is not comprised of the very best of the industries who have the skills to create brilliant students.

Most educated engineers join teaching as a profession not because of passion, but because they have to earn a livelihood. The few good professors prefer administrative positions because of lower intellectual demands coupled with higher pay packages.


Lack of innovation and research:

Students need to be motivated enough to innovate or think for themselves. As the new HRD minister Prakash Javadekar recently said, "Why do we lack innovation in India? Because, we don't allow questioning. We don't promote inquisitiveness. If a child asks questions in school, he is asked to sit down. This should not go on. We need to promote inquisitiveness, children should ask questions."

Students must be given the space and scope to think and innovate, to question and come up with solutions. This applies to both school education and higher education.

Such are Indian students trained right from their primary education that they never learn to question or innovate. Rote learning instils in students a sort of complacency for more than 12 years of education and they are unable to make the shift from un-questioning learners to innovators in the job market.

Faulty education system:

Semester systems and the process of continuous evaluation are not fulfilling their desired roles as the students are not interested in continuous learning-they only want good grades. Unless the specific purpose of such initiatives is properly understood by faculty and students alike, these methods likely would not work.

Lack of skill-based education:

Skill-based education is another immediate need. Engineering students need to have hands-on training on the basis of the problems they are likely to encounter in the real world.

"One of the major problems facing the fresh graduates is their insufficient understanding of basic concepts. The lack of in-depth understanding of technical information, lack of client-handling skills and insufficient knowledge across domains are the major skill gaps in the area," says Bharwani.

While the vast numbers of engineering students in the country study their textbooks, give their exams and collect their degrees, it is only when they encounter the real world problems do they realise their shortfall. By then, they have to take extra time in order to skill themselves or suffer unemployment.

"Initiatives like the Start-up India and Make in India are positive efforts taken by the government in this direction to boost employment opportunities for engineers," he adds, however.

Importance of college name:

According to the Aspiring Minds report, companies are prone to visiting only top colleges to recruit potential employees. Thus, resumes from relatively unknown colleges do not get shortlisted.

This not only creates a lack in equal opportunities, but also causes a deficiency of quality employees as this process ignores a huge number of meritorious students who do not study in top tier colleges.


Ease of permission from state governments:


A major cause of mushrooming engineering colleges is the ease with which state governments grant permission to little-known barely-trained educational trusts and organisations to set up the same.

Karnataka's Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) oversees as many as 200 engineering colleges, while in all the 50 US states combined, there are about 1,000 accredited engineering colleges.

The IT 'employability':

The Aspiring Minds report says that despite the fact that the IT sector carries out the highest number of recruitments from the pool of engineers, only 18.43 per cent engineers are skilled enough to work there, while, for IT product roles, the numbers are as low as 3.21 per cent.

Due to comparatively higher employment in the IT sector, students even from other disciplines take up IT-related courses. Thus, the end result of this inadequate education creates engineering graduates who are not well-versed in their core subjects, nor in IT.

Lack of proper English skills:

The study attributes the lack of English communicative skills, which they found in 73.63 per cent of candidates, and low analytical and quantitative skills, which they discovered in 57.96 per cent of candidates to be other main reasons for unemployment.

Even the IT sector requires employers who are fluent and well versed in English, as within around two years of experience on the job, they would have to communicate with international customers. Thus, if the quality of engineering graduates do not improve, IT sector hiring will also go down.

Disregard of essential soft skills:

Soft skills have become very important in the present job industry, but they are routinely ignored in educational institutes.

"This is perhaps the trickiest issue," says Bharwani. "The lack of ability of the individual to deliver his views effectively at the interview leads to rejection of even the most brilliant candidate. This is because training institutes do not make an effort to ensure that the candidates develop their skills in a wholesome manner which can contribute towards client-handling and team communication skills."

The Government of India needs to sit up and take notice of the issues that are threatening the very future and stability of our country.


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This is what happens when after Plus Two all these youngsters jumping for Engineering. I see that the trend is changing especially in southern states. Engineers competing for Bank jobs and for loco pilot jobs or as direct marketeers and even worst. This is happening now.

India is primarily an agrarian country, no sufficient decent jobs as an engineer.
 

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