Director's Message

2 Million Engineering Pass Outs In India Every Year, Fewer Getting Hired [Trends]

Engineering colleges have been springing up like wild mushrooms in India in the last few years. Their number has gone up from a not too modest 1,511 colleges in 2006-07 to an astoundingly high 22000+ in 2014-15. The state of Uttar Pradesh, Kolkata, Odhisa, Bihar, AndhraPradesh, MadhyaPradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi/NCR alone have more than 17000+ colleges. but the fact that they are not providing best education and training necessary for getting jobs in the market.

If these figures are anything to go by, it would be easy to be led into believing that opting for a degree in engineering would be a wise career move in India. The fact, however, remains that 20-33% out of the 1.5 million engineering graduates passing out every year run the risk of not getting a job at all. For those who do, the entry-level salary is pathetically low, and has stagnated at that level for the last eight-nine years, though the prices of everything from groceries to vehicle fuel have shot up during the same period.

Whether it is the below-par quality of education provided by private colleges or the stagnating (if not shrinking) demand for the number of engineers, the huge number of engineering pass outs – which, incidentally, is more than the total number of engineers produced by the USA and China combined together, face a bleak future.

A large percentage of the ‘fortunate’ ones who do end up getting a job after an engineering degree take up jobs which are well below their technical qualifications, since the quality of education is not good and 90% colleges in INDIA do not give training to engineers as per the industry requirements. They do not get jobs for which they are qualified or ‘suitable’ jobs, which makes the matters worse.

These are the facts insisted me for making a  MISSION of "SKILLED ENGINEERS OF 21ST CENTURY", with the help of this mission, engineers are getting trained as per industry  requirements of the world, the engineers after getting trained with us can easily survive in this competitive world with more advanced skills.

Gaurav Bhadani
Director, BQSTPL

Professional Quantity Surveyor - Civil Engineering

Construction Management Specialization from Columbia University