Blessing in disguise

Around 20 yrs ago from the day I'm publishing this article there was huge growth in Engineering colleges all over India.

It was a running joke in the community that if a threw a rock on a group of 10 young people your chances of hitting an engineer were 70%.

It raised particularly 2 important question:

1-What are the standard of academics in these institutions?

2-Are there enough jobs available in the country to employ those students who graduate successfully?

To answer the first question,I would like to point to the fact that standards vary for all educational institution. But even if it is low these kid have to come from a schooling system where they would have to read-Physics,Chemistry,Maths and Computers for 12th class electives. You can argue about the school standard education but atleast they must have passed these subjects in any respectable board be it national or statewise. That itself introduces analytical thinking in a student. That is so critical for a developing country like India where we don't have developed economic growth and it is to be constructed with these young individuals as base. I'm not degrading any other profession but don't you think to build a country with a strong foundation Engineers and Scientists are the most valuable.

To answer the second question it is important we don't follow the ideology that jobs will be provided to us in a country with such a big population and which itself is a vast and varied demography. This is exactly what helped us in creating those unicorn companies that you keep hearing about every now and then. This change in the collective social attitude of the country has brought a massive change in the economy and the livelihood of the people too.The change has started from being job seekers to job providers. And these very engineers are providing their expertise to other countries too.

So we indians are on the right trajectory...