Worthless degree, jobless graduates
Around 1.5 million engineers are graduating every year but most of them don't have skills required to be employed
Gowharr Fayaz Bhat
In India engineering as a career has attracted a lot of students in a big way and large number of aspirants burn the midnight oil in order to crack the exam. These aspirant’s dream themselves as an engineer earning a decent package.
Every year lakhs of students appear in the entrance examination for institutions like ‘IIT’ but only few of them manage to clear it. Those students who are unable to fulfill their dreams either start preparation for second year or they knock the doors of private colleges.
But after dedicating crucial time do they really become skilled Engineers? Or their engineering skills are limited to their certificates. The question arises today because of shocking result survey carried by aspirant minds that only 7% of engineering graduates are employed. What is wrong with Indian Engineers? The lack of skills from graduate engineers leads to unemployment.
Engineering is one of the best professions to be chosen, but nowadays people seem it contemptible because of rarely availability of engineers. In India there are more than 4000 plus colleges which are enrolling 2.9 million students.
Around 1.5 million engineers are graduating every year but most of them don’t have skills required to be employed. After all engineering graduates are widely numerical and analytical.
Why Engineers don’t get jobs?
After getting a B-tech degree no engineer is capable to do work without at least 6 month or one year training. This is burden for a company that is why they put fresher’s aside. India is producing 1.5 lakh engineers every year. This rate is increasing to the previous year’s unemployment statistics.
Technology is changing drastically but syllabus of colleges is not changing. How can engineer compete with the people with 10 year old syllabus? If market demands practical skills then why engineering colleges still focus on theories?
Engineering students are moving towards big cities for their training but companies are taking advantage of their unemployment by cheating them and exploting the situations they are trapped into.
Due to unemployment you can find engineering graduates working as private school teachers, bank employees or lecturer in the same college or university where they studied. In an ugliest scenario you can find them as a peon. In India student is considered to make the three mistakes in life. “First they are very good in studies, second they are good in maths and third they choose engineering”.
Engineering has just become a mugging up theories and vomiting it on the examination paper and with these theoretical studies especially for Civil engineering there is no point judging engineering graduate.
Companies expect technical skills and education system teaches thesis. At the fag end of their degrees engineers find out that they have wasted both time and money just to get the degree which has no use.
Recently even the Jammu and Kashmir Government also abolished SELF-HELP groups leaving thousands of engineers jobless. Over 4500 engineer’s, both degree and diploma holders have been working under SHG’s. Instead of generating employability for these technical graduates the government is snatching it away.
The government should take the steps in order to save the future of engineers by decreasing the number of intake capacity of engineers by doing this only limited students can study engineering so that it can regain its fame.
The syllabus should be updated and exams for engineering should be tough. The government should announce new schemes and create vacancies for engineers. The students who want to pursue engineering degree should face entrance exam even in private colleges so that only qualitative student’s get admission.
Due to failure of government engineering graduates are choosing non engineering careers. Normally, a country should be proud to have many fresh engineers but considering truth behind this is quite shameful that they keep producing engineers who are not fit for employment.
(The writer is an engineer and can be reached at [email protected])
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