While Prime Minister Narendra Modi promotes his Make in India mission and the country hopes to reap a demographic dividend through its predominantly young population, quality of engineering education plays a spoilsport.India's problem of substandard engineering education is now widely known. Except IITs and other prestigious technology institutes, most engineering colleges are unable to provide education to engineering student that would get them suitable jobs At the root of the problem is mushrooming of low-quality engineering colleges over the years. According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), nearly 200 'substandard' engineering colleges have applied for closure.Since 2016, the number of engineering seats has been on the decline. In 2015-16, total intake was 16,47,155, of which enrolment was 8,60,357, which was 52.2 per centAICTE wants to close down about 800 engineering colleges across India. In 2016-17, half of the 15.5 lakh BE/BTech seats were vacant in 3,291 engineering colleges in the country.India's crisis of engineering education is quite visible.

Source: Economic Times April 09, 2018 09:38 UTC