Every Year lot of engineers graduate out of engineering colleges, but the unemployment rate is too high among the engineering graduates. It is inevitable to find out the problems associated with students studying in engineering colleges in India, and there is a need to know the solutions to make some changes in the ongoing trend.
In the case of technical education, it becomes imperative to get updated with the latest technologies and ongoing industry standards. There is a demand for around 25,000 IT professionals every year in India, but it is surprising to know that 80 percent of engineering graduates are unemployable as per Aspiring Minds National Employability Report. There is a persistent skill deficit that is hindering the growth of recruitments in the technical field.
To resolve the problem of skill deficit among the technical graduates, the solution lies in revamping the technical education system. There is inconsistency in the syllabus taught by the engineering institutes across the country. Some colleges are still relying on the decades-old syllabi and adhering to the age old teaching methods. Many colleges are not willing to update the syllabus as per the industry requirements. There is a need for uniformity among all the Engineering colleges in India so that the quality of technical education must increase all over the country.
Efforts in the Right Direction:
The Technical Engineering Education Quality Improvement Project (TEQIP) established by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India and supported by the World Bank need a bigger push to bring changes in the engineering institutes philosophy of imparting technical education. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) which is the regulating government authority of technical education has set up a committee of experts to review the existing syllabus and recommended changes in the engineering curriculum for engineering colleges across the country.
Attempted Changes:
In the history of technical education in India, there happened to be some instances when some institution had focused on making changes in technical education. For example, the College of Engineering, Pune in 2003 had revamped their curriculum, taking IIT Bombay as their role model.
Changes to Come:
Recently, the AICTE had approved the establishment of single entrance examination National Entrance Exam (NEEM) for entrance in all the engineering colleges in India as that of NEET. Now, the AICTE has mandated the engineering colleges to revise their syllabi consulting with the industries annually. The regulating authority has directed the engineering colleges to set up a subject-wise Industry Consultation Committees (ICCs) every year to execute the process of curriculum update in collaboration with industries.
Increasing Employability:
The condition of employability is dismal in India when it comes to recruitment of engineers. To make the engineering graduates' job ready, AICTE in a document stated that every engineering graduate has to go for mandatory induction training at the admission time to revive the fundamental concepts in the subject of their choice. Instead of one summer training, now every student has to undergo three industrial training before completing the undergraduate. To improve the industrial readiness among the techno-students, various jobs-ready skill will be imparted like team working skills, managerial skills, leadership skills, entrepreneurial skills and communication skills.
The time has come to look deep into the problems of unemployability. Without solving the practical hurdles, the employability of engineering graduates will not increase. The technical institutes have to sincerely adhere to the changes coming up for reviving the technical education across India.
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