Day 78 – Q 1. According to a report, 90% of technical graduates in India are unemployable. What are the reasons behind it? What repercussions does it have on job market in India?
1. According to a report, 90% of technical graduates in India are unemployable. What are the reasons behind it? What repercussions does it have on job market in India?
Introduction:
As per a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds created a stir by claiming that 95 per cent of engineers in the country were not fit for software development jobs.
Body:
Reasons:
- No detention policy which reduced the quality of education.
- Lack of updation of curriculum.
- Industry academia gap.
- Lack of measures to check the teacher’s updation with changing time.
- Bogus of magazines that publish papers for business gains ( novelty of ideas is lost).
- 80% higher education population is concentrated on under graduation. Lack of measures to take up novel researches at this stage is a missed opportunity.
Repercussions on job market (Negative):-
- Major part of job creation lies at the hand of private industries to employ these technical graduates. Increasing automation and artificial intelligence paints a grim picture on future.
- India was an attractive outsourcing destination. In the era of de globalisation coupled with skill gap situation may get worse.
Positive repercussion:
- Increase in the number of entrepreneurs
- ‘ A crisis is a terrible thing to waste’ – it may give a kick start to industries like apparel, electronics manufacturing, assembling etc.
- Industries may start participating in framing curriculum for the students.
Conclusion:
Though the crisis of employability pose both threats and opportunities to capitalize, Speed with which we change the threat to opportunity without wasting the demographic dividend is paramount.
Best answer: Sreelakshmy Vijayan Uma
