AICTE chief faults industry report

Updated on: Tuesday, February 21, 2012

With an objective to prove that companies had recruited more than 25 per cent of engineering graduates in the country, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had planned to come out with a detailed report about technical education in the country.

Prof. S. S. Mantha, chairman, AICTE, said that every year several industrial organisations come out with a study which says only 25 per cent of engineers were eligible to get employment. Most of these studies are sector specific. Nasscom releases one for IT and ITES, he said.

Questioning these studies, Prof Mantha asked the industry captains to explain where the remaining 75 per cent of technical graduates went.

“We will soon come out with a report which will provide a reply for the industry fallacy. The report will have all details about technical education in the country", he said.

Arguing that providing education to 20 lakh undergraduate and postgraduate students in technical education institutions spread across the country is the most difficult job, the AICTE chairman said that colleges had to accommodate both students who had secured 100 per cent and 30 per cent in the same classroom which made teaching-learning process a difficult one.

Taking a dig at the industry, Prof. Mantha said, “Look at industries abroad. They invest in university research, you will not fund research in education institutions but expect us to do world class research.”

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