Sunday, February 08, 2004
Producing engineers, Indian style
Atlast somebody has dared to point out that India is producing more engineers than normal! And also more engineers than required. In itz report, the UR Rao committie has suggested to cut down the no of engg seats in the country from 350k to 50k per yr.
Finally somebody has dared to comment outside the regular hype of India's "vast" higher education system, producing thousands of "high-skilled" graduates every yr, blah blah. As the committee has pointed out, and from my own personal experience, there r hundreds of unemployed enggs and thousands more who r under-employed. In Karnataka itself, abt 30-40k ppl graduate as engineers every yr.
But I'm not sure if the pegging the no to 50k is correct! Compare this to 65k who graduate as enggs in USA every yr. With India's population been 3 times that of USA, and considering that India anticipates a higher growth in the next yrs/decades, may be 50k wud be too small a number! However, itz imperative that India gets some control over the ever-increasing number of engg colleges, most of them with abysmal quality and infrastrucure.
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you!
-Unknown
Atlast somebody has dared to point out that India is producing more engineers than normal! And also more engineers than required. In itz report, the UR Rao committie has suggested to cut down the no of engg seats in the country from 350k to 50k per yr.
Finally somebody has dared to comment outside the regular hype of India's "vast" higher education system, producing thousands of "high-skilled" graduates every yr, blah blah. As the committee has pointed out, and from my own personal experience, there r hundreds of unemployed enggs and thousands more who r under-employed. In Karnataka itself, abt 30-40k ppl graduate as engineers every yr.
But I'm not sure if the pegging the no to 50k is correct! Compare this to 65k who graduate as enggs in USA every yr. With India's population been 3 times that of USA, and considering that India anticipates a higher growth in the next yrs/decades, may be 50k wud be too small a number! However, itz imperative that India gets some control over the ever-increasing number of engg colleges, most of them with abysmal quality and infrastrucure.
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you!
-Unknown
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