Since years, the news of around 95 percent of Indian engineering graduates being unemployable is loud and clear. But very little that has been done to fill this employability gap that perhaps has the power to turn the table in favour of the country in the coming days as India is the youngest nation of the world with around 65 percent of its population being in the young bracket. With not much done to engage this youth in the development of the country, the weak fundamentals of the education system is also to be blamed that believes in just educating the students rather than skilling them.

Though the system fails due to various political

and social motivations, we cannot say that the country failed to produce any good industry figure. We have the likes of Satya Nadella, Kiran Majumdar Shaw, Sundar Pichai, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Shantanu Narayen, Nikesh Arora and several others who are leading the industry change from the front and guiding some of the world’s biggest corporate.

It is not a surprise that almost all of the leading Indian entrepreneurs went to some foreign universities to pursue their further studies and gain impeccable knowledge. This is where Indian education system lacks and with time,it will be further difficult for the students and engineers to gain a ground for them in the foreign land.

But in the recent times, certain Engineering colleges have taken a different route to mould some of the best engineers of the world by tweaking their curriculum according to the need of the market/industry. While interviewing few of these colleges for our ‘Top 100 Engineering Colleges – 2017’ issue, it was amusing to know that some of these colleges are even mapping the students’ basic key skills from the day they enter the campus and customize the skill training courses as per each of them to help them work on their weaknesses and strengths. With such initiatives picking up the chart, it is sure that the table will turn in favour of us one day, but that day isn’t going to come too soon. We all, including educational institutions and corporate along with government, have to work together to reduce this cycle and create colleges/universities which will produce the next generations of experts that are not foreign university returned.