As per the AICTE website, there are 3051 AICTE approved institutions pan India for the session 2019-2020 which are offering various courses in Engineering. They have a total intake of 1329369 seats but the most interesting point is that only 389982 students were placed. But whether this figure is real?
"Engineer", as a young boy I was always told that an Engineer is a very well educated person and has awesome knowledge to create anything from "pen ki nip" to "pant ki zip" and not only that he can create marvelous buildings as well as the smallest chips which can connect the whole world in milliseconds.
But after interacting with approx 1000's Engineering students and taking interviews with fresh Engineering Graduates, I came to know that the definition of Engineer has completely changed. Now an Engineer is a person who doesn't know how to write a simple leave/job application, doesn't even know the use of resistance and diode, doesn't know how to format a computer, doesn't even know the difference between a hammer and a mallet and many more. Is this really what an Engineer is?
Don't get me wrong on this, not all engineers are like this but, about 50% of the engineers coming out of college are like this and it is shown in the data published by AICTE on their website as more than 50% of the Engineering Graduates don't get placements, neither they have the skills sets to survive in the cutthroat competition. This always brings a question in my mind "What do millennials do in their Engineering College Life?" (Well I would request you guys to tell me in the comment section what did you guys do in your college life)
After digging deep into this I came to know that it is not completely the fault of the students, the system is responsible too. It seems that the system itself wanted all the students to pursue Engineering compared to other courses. Below are the growth in intakes in technical courses, after seeing this I feel that AICTE always wanted the students to pursue Engineering rather than other courses.