Engineers in India

Do you know that India produces 350,000 engineers every year and just to give an idea of the whooping figure, it is five times the number of engineers produced in USA. So, you must be feeling proud of it, but you will feel it no more when you will find that majority of them do not get the right technical education and are not ready to face the challenges which awaits them in the industry. The amount of money spent on higher technical education in India is only 3% of the total R and D money where as it is as high as 30% for many developed economies. We do not have the best faculty n most of the colleges. One can find engineering colleges in small buildings in the states of south India. To give you an idea of how uneven is the distribution of engineering colleges in India is, states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, kerela and Tamil nadu account for only 30% of Indian population but 70% of engineers while the states like UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, account for 49% of population and 14% of engineers. The condition of private engineering colleges in the south is really deplorable. They have become the cheap shops which trade in the future of young minds, they take large sums of money and offer nothing but a degree. The result is massive unemployment, youths having b.tech degree in hand but fighting for jobs. The result comes as the numerous suicide reports which have become a part of life just like the morning tea. But, one must not forget that he will not enjoy the tea that happily if one of them is your son. I am sure none of us will doubt that a good historian or physicist is more useful to the society and the nation than a bad engineer. So, why put unnecessary pressure on your ward instead we should try to help the young minds achieve what they want and not impose our own wishes on them. With this message, I will like to say that one should get out of this mad rat race for the welfare of the individual, society and the nation as well.