India’s regulatory body for engineering education has denounced the software services industry’s claim that 90% of fresh engineering graduates are unemployable and said industry should help them train in emerging areas and deploy them.
The All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) said the IT companies had hired same set of students hired based on basic knowledge of coding and built a multi-billion dollar industry.
Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, AICTE, said these companies’ need has changed and they would not require the “run of the mill 10 line coders’.
“They want skills in Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and hence that there is a mismatch. Engineering institutions are also to change their curriculum.” That is not enough, he said.
“The second part is because there are not so many jobs of that type (new skills) they are saying (engineers are) not employable. My only appeal is industry also should put in some efforts in training them in new areas and provide internship to them,” said the AICTE chairman.
India’s $167 billion IT-BPM sector has more than 3.9 million employees and the sector witnessed a sharp decline in hiring during the past five years to a decade primarily due to disruption in use of technology across organisations. Infosys, one of the top five IT companies, reported a net addition of little more than 3700 at the end of FY18, while its net addition was nearly 19000 a decade ago in FY08.
Nearly a million engineering students pass out in India a year and the software service industry recruited nearly a lakh engineers last year.
IT-BPM industry body Nasscom said academic institutions should actively partner in the transformation journey of its member companies. “They should partner with industry to change the curriculum, train the faculty,” said Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice president, Nasscom.
The engineering education body also mentioned that it would not allow setting up of new engineering colleges for two years beginning 2020, considering the recommendations of the government committee headed by IIT-Hyderabad chairman B V R Mohan Reddy. The committee made its suggestions as large numbers of seats in engineering colleges remained vacant.
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