PSUDO-TECHNICAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTES
This is very much spoken topic , when it comes to fresher from engineering colleges. Many Big software players have written harshly about it, I remember reading WIPRO, INFY, IBM quoting that 70% of engineering graduates are not employable. Even after such harsh words,I have not seen any kind of concern towards such comments from engineering college managements, I started talking about it to many colleges, 5 years before when i was planning for a startup, and i was having keen interest in building business model around it at the same time solving very important problem of engineering students quality, which is directly related to employment of students and the same time Good input to IT Industry. But then i left hope as i seen , many of them(Management , Principal and Staffs) were not passionate about the field itself , secondly most of them didn't understand the field, it was more depressing to see managements were not bothered about the problem, they were ok as long as institutions were running and getting fees .If some management had willingness of doing something exceptional they didn’t get support from Principal and Staff. This way I concluded very soon , it’s difficult to convince to Principal & Management when they are short sighted/less passionate and not bothered about doing anything exceptional , in fact most of faculties and principals , don’t wanted me to take it forward because they don’t wanted any possibility of any additional work/responsibilities on their capable shoulders.
I switched to product development
started working into digital City , Mobile Communication , Stock Market
and other research topic, I needed manpower so I choose engineering fresher
only as obvious choice of startup, to my surprise it worked very well , a good
scalable architecture and good product management resulted into good
transformation into these freshers , they build very good capabilities , in
short span of time , where we never engaged in any kind potential of hand holding
or class room teaching, all we did was
guiding them to learn while working on real time project turned them to very
good technical assets . Most of juniors in my startup are from Non-IT
background and some are having good amount of backlogs & year backs. Students
are always ready to give their time, effort and required funds. Even after this
we see engineering students come out with lowest or no technical density , There is nothing wrong to
conclude these are institutions, Management
and teachers who have miserably failed to produce they are supposed to. One of
my product is into academic automation which made me to retouch engineering institution,
where I had to gather some technical requirements about Accreditation, I was so
impressed about Accreditation norms and enforcement which up to some extent
tries to make sure that institutions are taken on TASK, but unfortunately these
guys manage to execute Accreditation process as mere formality mostly on paper,
get Accredited.
What made me to write
this blog? Recently I read newspaper, AICTE have sort of declared some
institutions as under performers, if they scrutinize properly I don’t think any
institutions will fall into ideal category. At the same I have not seen even
govt trying to screw them more or help them making it possible. The Schemes
like Digital India or Elevate-2018 will have no meaning if our fresh graduates
are psudo-technical with only technical degree. An ITI certificate holder will at
least have skills to earn their basic needs; where as our engineering graduates
and engineering colleges are completely dependent on industry. And producing low
or non performing output (Students) Some engineering colleges have managed to
keep their reputation only because of their relationship with MASS RECUITERS;
such institutions are considered as GOOD institutions. The Whole problem is
Parents and Students have no attitude of question to these institutions, these
institutions don’t have pressure of accountability towards producing engineers,
they are only limited to produce academically qualified graduates at the same
time I have seen some engineering professors who have industry background and
enthusiastic but this count is less than 0.1%.
Ideally Technical institutions are supposed to research work on
most of pending items, especially those topics for research which industry don’t
pick up due to business reason , contributing to open source , creating
frameworks like Android , Java , Netfilter , Raspeberry Pi , VOIP , UPI , UPNP ,
Beacon , USB , Sockets etc etc.. I feel
these kind of contributions are suppose to come from engineering institutions
as Industry will focus on commercial preposition instead of contribution and
research . Researches should be carried away by technical institutions and they
should be measured based on their contribution instead on infrastructure or anything
else. As part of formality technical institutions have setup INCUBATION CENTER
, which is repeatation of class rooms . Govt
should focus and allocate extra funds on supporting startup which is interested
in building business model, interested in research in joint operation with institutions,
it should be strictly followed.
ISNT EASY TO UNDERSTAND IF THESE INSTITUTION DO WHAT THEY
ARE SUPPOSE TO DO PROBLEM OF EMPLOYABILITY, AND RECRUITEMENT WILL BE SOLVED , INFACT THE SITUATION WILL
REVERSE NOW INSTITUTIONS ARE SPREADING HANDS INFRONT OF INDUSTRY FOR RECRUITEMENT
BUT IT WILL BE REVERESED IF THEY DO WHAT
THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DO .
IF INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT DOING WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DO ,
THEY WILL BE FORCED TO DO . AS SITUATION OF EMPLOYABILITY IS DECREASING WHICH IS ALSO SLOWING DOWN THE ACCELERATION
OF INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT . THIS PRESSURE WILL BE KEEP ON INCREASING DAY BY
DAY . ITS IMPORTANT TO TAKE THESE THING SERIOUSLY BY ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS .
