1. Overflowing Engineering Colleges
In India: Mere Engineering Of
Colleges
- Hariharan Ramakrishnan

2. Engineering, an obvious choice
• It is very obvious to everyone “ what should one do after 12th
standard?” and most often, engineering is the answer in
unison.
• Every parent chooses the most booming stream currently for
their children.
• Engineering just means a four year task cut out for
completion of assignments and scoring in internal and
external exams to pass.
• Most colleges teach just only aptitude for placement and not
engineering.

3. The sorry state
• It is a sorry situation to see unqualified staff who made his
own bachelor degree a comedy, igniting the minds of
students to build a superpower nation by 2020.
• Engineering is no more a study with the aim of developing
industrialization and rendering utilities to the society.
• It is a mere card necessary to obtain a job for earning a livable
salary for survival.
• It was a shocking earlier report to see a report produced by
NASSCOM that only 15% of the engineering graduates in
India are employable, but even this is casual mow.

4. • Still there are students in lakhs, every year who are doing the
same “beat around the bush” work in the so called
engineering colleges.
• According to AICTE’s report, 4.6 lakh engineers graduated in
2004-05 and 5.2lakh in 2005-06.
• In the past 5 years, the number of engineers have increased
to threefold as the number of colleges.
• An alarming fact is that there are over 3393 engineering
colleges in India with a capacity of 14.85 lakh seats.

5. • The above statement shows that in lieu of producing quality
engineers, engineering colleges are produced.
• It is no more a college of engineering, it is engineering of
colleges.
• What this shows is that, it is no more an education but a
“business”.
• Private engineering colleges aim only to mint money and not
to preach engineering.
• Students pay double the money than the prescribed fees and
they have nowhere to go except to follow the path laid by
their jobless frontiers.

6. Pathless dream
• The conclusion is that these institutions will lead individuals
and the country nowhere.
• Few exceptions like IITs and NITs are forbidden for many
aspiring students in the rat race.
• The solution would be to provide a check on the pseudo
engineering colleges which would otherwise ruin the lives of
many youngsters in the name of professionalism.

7. • Approval should be granted to colleges only after
implementation of necessary infrastructure, qualified staff
and well established laboratories.
• An otherwise effective solution is for the youngsters to break
the chain and follow their dreams, so that dawn really comes.

8. Precaution/ FREE ADVICE
• Vishwanathan Anand has claimed the World Chess
Championship for the 5th time, consequently there is a viral
spread of chess coaching centers in the country.
• Beware! Don’t heed your ears to your parents, follow what
your heart says.
• Don’t end up in a pseudo Chess center.

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