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Satire advertisement about 1000 acres of campus 10000 placements etc. For a prosperous future they invest about 10 lakh rupees (15000$) approx. in four years and yet this doesn’t ensure the same. I think it's wrong to simply blame engineering colleges for churning out sub-standard engineers. Hardly anyone in India aspires to be a good engineer in the first place. Very few become engineers sheer out of curiosity and interest about how things work. People who are really interested in their field make sure they do not remain sub-standard, no matter what college they are in! won’t be touched again and would be erased from the mind. And that’s why a greater emphasis on practical engineering is needed Keep aside IITs and NITs, when do you often hear about an innovation by the student? The maximum I have heard was that few students made a car using bike engine and car chassis by welding the angle. Come on! These things can’t be called innovation or something. Recreating what already has been developed 50 years ago isn’t engineering. I said it’s wrong to simply blame colleges not that they don’t share responsibility for this worsened situation. Earlier I told you that I have been to a lot of colleges for the purpose skill enhancements of student so that they could have those to fit into the construction industry. While a few directors/chairmen were keen and understood our approach, but the rest? Here’s an extract of what I keep listening, “We know you are seeking business opportunity here, you are not doing it for charity, but we want assurance of minimum 2 placement by your company before the training or bring any other company to our campus. Else our faculty is capable enough to teach our kids.” Even Kejriwal can’t give free water to Delhi people. Anyhow the Jal board has to be paid for its services. They firmly admit that they sell degree for money and refrain from any sort of experiments with their curriculum. Not to forget is the old age text books and course which are yet be taught in the colleges. There is so much emphasis on sessional and lab practical’s with lab files being copied from earlier batches. Of course academic knowledge is good but the pattern we are following, a student simply drinks whatever it can and vomits in the examination hall. If cleared in exam, that subject Talking about the employers, igloo makers are too right on their stand. They do have ample options. Anywhere they see, it’s all white. Snow and snow only. All holding up there degrees looking up to them for being chosen. Employers are no emotional fools or something. Think of yourself as a company owner, what type of employees would you see? Definitely a hardworking, quick learner, enthusiastic and learned. If you find these qualities in yourself, consider yourself hired then. Remember the moment you became an engineer, you became snow in this Antarctica with other lakhs and lakhs of engineer. You may melt and start chasing after MBA, Bank PO etc. But to be chosen for being an igloo brick, you need a special texture, because…. “Nobody buys snow in Antarctica”