The document discusses the issue of unemployed and unemployable engineers in India. It notes that while the number of engineering colleges in India has increased significantly, around 60% of graduating students remain unemployed and only 7% are deemed employable. Some of the key reasons identified for this issue include the large number of private colleges that have opened without proper facilities, high student-teacher ratios, outdated syllabi, lack of internship opportunities, and insufficient career guidance. Statistics are presented showing low employment rates and salaries for Indian engineers compared to other countries. The government has taken steps such as apprenticeship programs and centers of excellence to improve the situation.

1. PROJECT ID : UNEMPLOYED AND
UNEMPLOYABLE ENGINEERS IN INDIA
PROJECT TITLE : ENGINEERING
EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

2. MENTOR : SHRI SANJEEB PATJOSHI
INSTITUTE : JOINT SECRETARY TO GOVT. OF INDIA,
MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ
NAME : Prasoon Kumar Parihar
INSTITUTE : NIT JAMSHEDPUR
: prasoonparihar97@gmail.com
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3. Executive Summary
Let’s start with the first set of slides
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4. “As An Engineer I'm Constantly
Spotting Problems And Plotting How
To Solve Them.
~ James Dyson
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5. THE SCENARIO
 Engineering as a career has attracted students in India in a big way.
 Most sought out course in India.
 1511 colleges in the year 2006 to 3364 in 2016.
 60% of graduating students remain unemployed.
 Only 7% of them are Employable .
 Existence of problems like BRAINDRAIN.
 Experts believe an economy with a large percentage of unemployable but qualified
candidates is not only inefficient but a recipe for social instability.
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6. When did this
happen……….

7. BIG CONCEPT
INSTITUTES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
IITs AND NITs
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8. Indian institute of technology
 Recommended by N.R Sarkar report 1946
 First IIT in 1950 at Kharagpur
 IIT (Kharagpur) Act, 1956, declared the IIT to be “an institute
of national importance”.
 Within a decade, four more IITs were established in (then)
Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi to meet the growing
technological demands of the planned economy.
 Jawaharlal Nehru, being the chief architect behind the
creation of the IITs
 The institutes of Technology Act, 1961, created a unique
framework for the funding, administration and academic
development of the IITs as privileged institutions.
INSTITUTES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
National institute of technology
 NITs are a group of premier federally-funded public
engineering institutes in India.
 Governed by the national institutes of technology act, 2007
 Institutions of national importance alongside Indian institutes
of technology.
 The nit council is the supreme governing body of India's
national institutes of technology (nit) system and all 31 nits
are funded by the government of India.
 Have one of the lowest acceptance rates for engineering
institutes, of around 2 to 3 percent, second only to the Indian
institutes of technology (IITs) in India.
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9. GREAT IDEA
GREAT WORK
GREAT COLLEGES
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BUT STILL…………
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11. Possible Reasons For Low Levels Of
Employment Of Indian Engineering Graduates
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Privatisation
 In the early 1980s, 100 engineering colleges admitting around 25,000 students each year.
 Government institution couldn’t fulfil the demands of the industry during successive 5 Year Plans.
 Government allowed private sectors to setup technical institutions on self financial basis.
 50 new private engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu opened over a small period of time.
 Today, India produces 1.5 million engineering students from around 3500 engineering institutions annually.
 The quality of education in these private colleges is very unbalanced. Many of these colleges lack even basic facilities essential for
good engineering education and have practically no quality teachers at all.
 But on the other hand, some have excelled and are as good as or even better than many of the Government engineering colleges
today.
 The number of engineering colleges increased from 1511 in the year 2006-2007 to 3400 in the year 2014- 15.
 Only 15% of these colleges have been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
 College that doesn't have proper labs, proper teachers, proper classrooms to be ready for Industries. Having a degree doesn't really
help.

12. Possible Reasons For Low Levels Of
Employment Of Indian Engineering Graduates
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Teacher- Student Ratio
 The lower the ratio, the more attention a student gets from the faculty.
 Then only a student can be properly guided and nurtured.
 In Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this ratio lies at 4:1.
 In the Stanford University, the same ratio is around 5:1.
 Notable thing is that both of them are among the top universities of the world and are well
renowned for the quality of education they provide.
 According to All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), the average student: teacher ratio for Engineering
colleges in India lies at around 21:1 for the Undergraduate courses.

13. Possible Reasons For Low Levels Of
Employment Of Indian Engineering Graduates
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Syllabus not being updated
 Advancement of technology led to the introduction of modern machineries and tools, the study is still primitive and obsolete.
 The AICTE has a model curriculum that is used by affiliated universities as a base for preparing their own syllabi.
 The syllabus is changed for the first time in 9 long years.

14. Possible Reasons For Low Levels Of
Employment Of Indian Engineering Graduates
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Internships and Training
 Reports from Times of India and other leading newspaper suggest that during the Engineering, only 1% of the students go and opt
for Internships.
 Internships and trainings are a vital part of Engineering course.
 The Training and internships are offered by various companies to provide ample opportunity to the
 Students to learn about the Industries. But, it seems students are not aware of it and are less interested in doing one.
 Students themselves need to understand the advantages and need of training and internships during the summer or winter breaks.
 The colleges are solely responsible for unemployability of Engineering students.
 The unawareness or negligence made by the students themselves during their study cost them jobs later during the placement
season or when they join a firm and are inexperienced.

15. Possible Reasons For Low Levels Of
Employment Of Indian Engineering Graduates
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Lack of proper career guidance
 Engineer is the term that is associated with the boy in a family at a very young age and daughters are blessed with the word
Engineers.
 The Engineering courses has been over rated as mindset is of engineers earning more than other professionals.
 It is a well known fact that Engineering courses are reputed to be the most difficult of all and it requires multidisciplinary knowledge
and work experience.
 A student who has been forced into taking Engineering course is bound to suffer sooner or later.
 The number of Engineers that we produce is greater than the actual demand of Engineers.
 This is the very reason for such low employability (about 40%) of fresh graduates.

16. TIME FOR STATS TO COME IN PICTURE
Don’t Believe Me…..Just Look To The Stats
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17. EMPLOYABILITY vs COLLEGES
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18. MALE vs FEMALE
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19. RECRUITMENT AND SALARY
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20. AVERAGE
SALARY
AROUND
THE
GLOBE

22. Engineering education in UK
 The reports showcase that as much as 64% of students that
graduate every year land with a job in their pocket with an
average salary of 26,000 pounds which is about 21,00,000 in
INR.
 In UK the students are given career education and counselling
from a very tender age.
 STEM based learning which exists in the Europe.
 STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating
students in four specific disciplines — science, technology,
engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and
applied approach.
THEIR MODELS AND STRATEGY
European Engineering study models
 The German model for higher engineering education has
emerged which is based on the teaching and learning of
technological skills using rather traditional pedagogy and
which focuses on the demands of industry
 The French Engineering education model consists of intensive
training and stringent selection in basic sciences (math,
physics, biology, and chemistry), with a theoretical approach,
as is shown by the preparatory class system.
 The French Engineering education model consists of intensive
training and stringent selection in basic sciences (math,
physics, biology, and chemistry), with a theoretical approach,
as is shown by the preparatory class system.
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23. 7% of 150,000
Engineering students being surveyed are
suitable of core engineering jobs.
60% of 0.8 million
Engineering students remain unemployed
asccording to AICTE
80%
Engineering graduates are unemployable
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LOSS
OF
2MILLION
MAN
DAYS
ANNUALLY

24. 1%
Engineering students get involve in
summer internship programs
75% students
AICTE planned to provide industry
exposure in form of summer internship
15%
Engineering programs offered are accredited by
the National Board of Accreditation
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MORE
NUMBERS

25. STEPS TAKEN
TO MAKE
THINGS BETTER

26. OUR PROCESS IS EASY
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1. National Scheme of Apprenticeship Training
2. Support for Distance Education and Web Based Learning (NPTEL)
3. Indian National Digital Library in Engineering, Science & Technology
(INDEST-AICTE) Consortium
4. Establishment of Centres of Excellence in Frontier Areas of Science
and Technology

28. UCHCHATAR AVISHKAR YOJANA
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 To promote innovation in areas that is directly of relevance to the Manufacturing and Design
Industry.
 To spur innovative mindset in the students and faculty in premier technological institutes.
 To bring a coordinated action between academia and the industry.
 To strengthen the laboratories and research facilities in the premier technological institutions.
 To have outcome based research funding.

29. REFERENCES
1. MHRD, Schemes for Technical Education, http://mhrd.gov.in/technicaleducation-13
2. Atasi Mohanty, Deepshikha Dash, Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 2016, Published Online June 2016 in
SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jhrss http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jhrss.2016.42011
3. Data and statistics from- website of AICTE, Statistics- Graphs and charts http://www.aicte-
india.org/dashboard/pages/graphs.php
4. National Employability Report- Engineers Annual Report 2016, Aspiring Minds.
5. Engineering UK 2017.
6. Engineering: Issues, challenges and opportunities for Development, Report byUNESCO.
7. European Engineering Report.
8. News article on " Why are Indian engineers not employable?" by Business standards, http://www.business-
standard.com/article/current-affairs/why-areindian-engineers-not-employable-iit-heads-blame-poor-infra-117050200231_1.html
9. Article on "Why is India producing unemployable Engineers", by Prachi Salve.
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2015/08/employability-of-engineers-in-india/ 29

30. CREDITS
Special thanks to Mentor
SHRI SANJEEB PATJOSHI, JOINT SECRETARY
TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF
PANCHAYATI RAJ
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