The HRD Ministry has pulled up its socks to meet the challenge head on and start finishing schools for the engineering sector to fine-tune the final products.
NEW DELHI: Concerned about reports that only 25 per cent of the engineers in India are “employable” and of “real good quality”, the Union Human Resources Development Ministry (HRD) has pulled up its socks to meet the challenge head on and start finishing schools for this sector to fine-tune the final products.
Taking cue from the Swiss finishing schools, which have long monopolized the best of high society, the indigenous schools ill concentrate on engineers, mainly from the Information Technology sector, to begin with, and train them to face the industry with a more global approach.
The HRD ministry, initiating the move, will enroll IT professionals and engineering students for a 3-4 months course with the National Institutes of Technology where their technical skills will be sharpened and upgraded, while soft skills like etiquette and mannerism along with knowledge of foreign languages - essential for the BPO, ESO sector - will be inculcated.
The move has been initiated keeping in mind NASSCOM reports that have indicated that although India trains more engineers suitable for Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) and Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) than any other low-cost countries, not all are equipped with the skill sets required to succeed in this market.
“Keeping in mind the industrial requirements and augment the industry-ready engineers, the HRD ministry has planned these finishing schools in selected areas of Information Technology, to begin with,” said RP Aggarwal, secretary in HRD. He said that more areas of engineering will be added in the next phase and IITs are also likely to be involved in this move. At present, all IITs conduct a crash course on English language and skill development for its students in order to make them market fit and industry ready.
According to a rough estimate, Indian institutes produce about four lakh engineers a year, but a huge percentage of them are not employable. “The engineers have knowledge but no hands-on experience. The industry has to spend a substantial amount of money in training them. And due to this most of the time our engineers are also often paid less,” said an official. “The plan is to have some finishing arrangements for the engineers keeping in mind the latest trends and requirements of the industry so that they are well-tuned and fit to join industry after passing out,” he added.
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