“Only 1.7% of engineers in India fit into new-age jobs” “80% Indian engineers unfit for any job”: Study “Just 3% of desi techies have AI skills” : Report “Over 80% Indian engineers unemployable, lack new-age technological skills”: Report These are some of the glaring headlines that have been doing the rounds in some of the leading newspapers the past month. In the digital age, when the world is swiftly progressing towards the adoption of disruptive technologies, Indian engineers are being largely left behind in the race to reach the tech zenith. Talk about discrimination? Not really. According to a recently published report, only 3% of Indian engineers have new-age technological skills in areas like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Mobile Development. The same report also states that only a handful of engineers possess coding skills. Although 4.6% of Indian engineers can code correctly compared to their Chinese counterparts (2.1%) but they largely lag behind their American peers (18.8%) who can write codes correctly. Where is the lag? More than 1.7 lakh engineering students from over 750 engineering colleges were a part of the recently conducted 2019 Annual Employability survey. Some of the common connecting threads it revealed […]
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