Engineering Colleges does bring a drastic Change. Read How?

From over expectant parents who aim for their kids to go to the best engineering colleges to the lower middle class families, who can only dream of private colleges; Engineering as a career option is discussed in almost all Indian households. The reason behind this clear favouritism towards engineering is debatable. Some say it’s due to the fact that it's a professional course and somehow ensures employment. This however is not the entire truth. The reality is that graduates even from the top engineering colleges can remain unemployed, if their chosen stream is not their true calling. The choice of stream, as seen even in the best engineering colleges, which select not anyone, but the creamiest layer of future engineers, has always been based on placement figures. The branch with the maximum number of placements seen in the previous year becomes the most sought after the following year. This is a vicious cycle which keeps repeating itself every year as if it were right. However, it’s not. The correct procedure would be to allow each student a way to visualise and experience what each branch will be like to pursue and then correlate it with their aptitude and interests.

This, sadly, hardly happens in India. Here, a career is determined not by the job satisfaction or aptitude of the professional, but how safeguarded his job is. Success is measured, not by how happy a person is in his life, but how much money he has in his bank account.

A rising, debatable issue is whether or not India needs so many engineers every year; with unemployment and underemployment reaching new levels in the country, it’s pretty much obvious to see such issues being raised. The answer is, yes, the job sector and industries do need fresh graduates, not only from the top engineering colleges, but the budding ones; which admit not only the students with star studded mark sheets, but anyone who has an aptitude towards engineering.

A person's ability can never be judged by his marks or rank in the entrance exams, but the application skills required to pursue a course as demanding as engineering. This fact makes the whole concept of having best engineering colleges and the so called donation colleges, which are supposedly not up to the mark, null and void. However, nobody accepts this fact. Every year, multinational corporations are seen running behind the top engineering institutes with the belief these are the places where they will behind zealous prospective employees. But IITs and NITs are also the places where dreams of doing something different and out of the box are shattered beneath the weight of projects, scraps of paper, poetry written on them, are found crumbled between the width of assignments and notes.

The point is not whether a student is pursuing his course from the best college or not, but whether he wants to pursue that course at all.