That was the decade the state government decided to allow private engineering colleges. Around the same time, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh also decided to allow private engineering colleges. ALSO READ | How N. Chandrasekaran became Tata Sons chairmanBy the middle of that decade, enough private engineering colleges had emerged. The main objective was to target graduates in other disciplines who would otherwise end up with a private computer education institute. Back then, anyone who joined TCS wanted to be sent to the US on an assignment.

Source: Mint January 22, 2017 15:16 UTC