The architect of Delhi Metro Rail, E Sreedharan had expressed strong concern over deterioration in quality of engineering education and the fall of values in the society. He also stressed on the need for improving employment among engineering students.
Citing a survey conducted by a Kerala-based Magazine, the Metro Man had said that only 12 percent of the engineering graduates in the country were willingly employable and that 36 percent of them were not even trainable and another 52 percent can be made useful to the industry by further training. He believed that due to the fast rise in engineering colleges, most of these colleges have started as business ventures with political aid.“The high standards of the profession should not be sacrificed for personal advantages or short term financial gains. Unfortunately we see this too often in our country and engineers in general do not enjoy a clean reputation,” he observed.
“Though there are more than 700 colleges in Andhra Pradesh, there are not enoughquality professors and principals to manage so many collages. The facilities are also below-standard in most of them which is the root cause for the engineering standards to go down,” he concluded, reports IBN.
THE SAME STATUS IN TAMILNADU TOO
