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95% ENGINEERS IN INDIA UNFIT FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT JOBS
Talent shortage is acute in the IT and data science ecosystem in India with a survey claiming that 95 per cent of engineers in the country are not fit to take up software development jobs. According to a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, only 4.77 per cent candidates can write the correct logic for a programme — a minimum requirement for any programming job.
Over 36,000 engineering students from IT related branches of over 500 colleges took Automata — a Machine Learning based assessment of software development skills — and over 2/3 could not even write code that compiles.
MORE THAN 80% ENGINEERS ARE WITHOUT JOBS
Less than 20 per cent of graduate engineers in Gujarat get jobs. In certain branches like civil engineering, the campus placement figure is abysmally low at 5%. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) data for 2015-16 reveals that out of 11,190 students who passed computer science only 3,407 got placed. For the same year, out of 17,028 students who cleared mechanical engineering course only 4,524 got placed. Figures for other branches of engineering are equally grim.
No wonder, out of 71,000 engineering seats across the state, 27,000 seats remained vacant in 2016 in the admission process conducted by the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC). Experts say excess supply of engineering graduates against demand, quality of education, huge gap between curriculum and industry needs and lack of soft skills are some of the reasons for poor campus placement record of graduating engineers.