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With a recent report suggesting that as much as 95% of engineering graduates from Asia’s third-largest economy are unfit for programming jobs, there’s been an on-and-off debate around employability of India’s Engineers , an issue that rears its head every now and then. This year, Indian techies are having a tough year, accused for stealing jobs from locals in the US, UK, Australia, and Singapore, and on the other simply lacking even basic programming skills.
The heads of the country’s esteemed institutions for engineering studies, Directors of Indian Institutes of Technology consider these claims to be exaggerated, but think that the issue is still a concern. “The concern about engineers employability really arises because of the large number of engineering graduates produces every year from Indian colleges with outdated curriculum that they are made to study, poor teaching infrastructure as well as shortage of good faculty in institutes that are not premium or much reputed”, IIT directors spoke to ET.
“The country is producing as many as 10 lakh engineers a year. There needs to be a serious review,” said Indranil Manna, director at IIT Kanpur to ET . “Do we really need so many engineers? Are there that many jobs?”
