MUMBAI: India awarded 2.3 Lakh Engineering Degrees in 2006, but only a small fraction of these engineers are actually employable by industry, leading education experts and industry executives said.
A majority of these graduates come from tier-III and tier-IV colleges, which have very poor infrastructure, they added. On the other hand, tier-I and tier-II colleges, namely the IITs, IISc and the NITs produce , less than 1% of engineering graduates, 20% M.Techs and 40% PhD in India, said Prof Rangan Banerjee of IIT Bombay at a panel discussion on 'India's leadership in manufacturing role of engineering education' in Mumbai.
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