Why Engineers In India Are UNEMPLOYED?

“Engineers!!” What does exactly comes in your mind when you listen or think about this word? Don’t you think like Oh! Another Engineer.

Being an Engineer is a topic of the joke in India nowadays. Even the engineers make fun of themselves let’s leave the other or society for now. There are thousands of Indian engineers making fun of themselves making memes on social platforms and obviously in society.

And the main reason for this is the “UNEMPLOYMENT” of engineers in India. There are millions of India’s Engineers who are unemployed or stuck in the jobs unrelatable from their fields. Every year India produces lakhs of engineers, out of which only 10-20% get their desired jobs or desired packages. The other 80% either don’t get any job or very low packages.

The college authorities offer high chances of placements at the time of admission but it all turns to be fake when actually needed. Graduates who fail to get engineering jobs often change their job streams and take additional courses to be fit for the demand in the market. 

One of the major reasons for unemployment is too many engineers!! There are a large number of engineering colleges in India and obviously with their so poor academic infrastructure, including government as well as private universities. Even the best of our IITs don’t rank in the top 100. Not even a single Engineering college out of thousands of colleges is in the top 100 World Rank.

The main problem is the education system which is actually a shit for the whole of India. From school onwards, teachers and parents just focus on marks they judge students by their marks. So students start cramming everything without actually understanding anything, and that habit comes to college too. 

Branches are just for names. In the first year, everyone does is physics, chemistry, English, Even Mechanical and electrical (even if you are in CSE or IT branch). Basically, the first-year fees given to colleges are useless as they again tell us to cram whatever we learned in School. Same subjects the same syllabus. Nothing New! and now in the second year, they are telling us to study biology. Like seriously Man!

And with all of this nonsense going on there comes the most important part of becoming a useless Engineer “The Great Assignments” responsible for our assessments which every student of the class has done the same thing but again comes the teacher's point of view while giving marks. They judge assignments by faces, pages, and not the content written.

Because they never actually read even half paper of the assignment. The 4-year course includes more than half of the non-departmental subjects and no one exactly knows why. Teachers are clueless. And the 75% attendance in each subject, so laughable!!

We have an outdated syllabus in our system. We know its important to know the roots of how technology evolved but the content from 10-15 years ago? Seriously? Most of the engineers lack skills. Basically, 80% are unemployed because colleges don’t teach skills. They just teach theory subjects and how to write answers as we do in board exams to get the marks. How ridiculous!

Teachers basically say write this and you will get full marks. From school to college the only thing they teach us is how to get marks. What if they focused more on making students do their mini projects or inspiring and teaching them the real skills they need for the market. Or even the soft skills like: “ How to be more confident”, “How to build resumes”, “How to make a better first impression”, etc.

Engineering courses should prepare students for industries rather than focusing on theoretical knowledge. The curriculum is neither job oriented and nor the research-oriented.  Engineering in India has become all about mugging up because of these issues and hence the increasing number of unemployment because of a lack of skills.

Lastly, I would like to add its not always the external factors that count, but what we as students, do during these 4 years of time affects what happens after our graduation. Because this shitty system is not gonna change soon. Needless to say that India’s Youth is very Aspirational. “Hands-on and Do-Yourself approach.” We as youth don’t necessarily have to fight over one seat with 500 hundreds of students, Just create more seats!!