Quality Engineers are not getting produced

Few days back, Infosys' former chairman Narayan Murthy indicated that most of the engineering graduates Software organizations are hiring, lacks necessary skills to work in an IT organization. He said that we are spending a lot of money in their trainings to make them able to work.

This statement is quite true, as I am also an engineering graduate from a university where students can pass their semester exams even if they start preparation just one week ago and can get good marks. Irrespective of what you write in exam but make sure you filled your sheet and didn't leave it blank, you can pass exam.

No one is going to bother if you don't concentrate on research work. You should have good enough marks and you should have good communication skills, you will be able to get job if get an opportunity.

First of all, a lot of number of engineering graduates being produced with almost no skills, most of the software organizations hire Civil/ Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics graduates just because they have good communication skills and they can be trained in 5-6 months in order for them to work what is required by an IT company.

As per recent statistics, in alone Madhya Pradesh state there are approx 300 engineering colleges each with an average capacity of 400, so total number of graduates passing out every year is 120,000 and approx 10,000 get job either by campus placements or off campus. So rest of graduates are forced to either do something else or go for higher education or even most of them do nothing.

This headcount is for Madhya Pradesh, situation for rest of India is also same.

This situation of unemployment of engineering graduates can be avoided if number of seats to become engineer are reduced to 15k - 20k approx in each state and there are qualified faculty members in each colleges and students are forced to do some research work along with working on communication skills in order to pass exam and get good grades. By doing this at least engineering graduates will get jobs.

By seeing a lot of population of India and number of kids growing up, there should be emphasis on other fields like teaching, arts, music, commerce, all fields of science and many other which may create employment. This can be done by training teachers who can in turn teach in colleges and then deploying these teachers over existing colleges and new colleges converting existing engineering colleges to other streams.

This could be one of the way to create quality professionals in all fields as India is lacking these things these days.