Is my future in jeopardy?
I was reading a post on rediff.com which said, Last year alone, India produced around 450k engineers and 35% of them were computer engineers. Though it is happy to see around 4.5 lakhs come out of india but the point of concern is that whether there will be space for all. We do the hitman job here by scrounging on the out-sourced jobs. We have to look for avenues to create an oppurtunity for ourselves. Like how we were self sufficient in agriculture, we have to be self adaptive in software industry too. Albeit companies like microsoft, intel, google, sun micro systems are moving there base to india is a good sign for us, being clairvoyant alone wouldn't help. Rather than producing engineers who can code Java, C, C++ is not enough. We should help our engineers think. Help them develop altogether new products. Develop them to create more avenues. This can be done by emphasizing on knowledge staff population. Unlike china where doing a PhD in china is still preferred by local population, indian PhDs don't have much value. Arguably only the IITs and IISc is worth considering for PhD, whereas in US even the third tier college have enough facilites to do research. We indians were slaves in the past, we should not let this happen atleast in the future.
posted by Truly Yours | 5:29 AM
5 Comments:
you are right my friend. when students finish their engineering in collage they are searching for job. They should create a good software and develope our country.
Hi,
A coin has two sides..I agree with you that many engineers graduate every year..But its one's skills that takes that person to greater heights..
This Rediff column paints a different picture. Grass is greener on the other side Ain't so ?
You seem to be saying qiute a few things -- but i dont know if you are just saying them, bcos it is cool to say so or you do mean what you say. For instance, you say "We should help engineers think". Arent we the engineers? Are you saying we should help ourselves think ? or are you we dont have the capability to think? or are you passing the buck?
I think the right spirit is to take up the initiative in making india self-sufficient. We are all enginneers from india and we all have the capabilities to, say, create companies that innovate in india -- rather than outsource our butts to some random non-innovative company. It is pathetic that india produces the best enguneers but fails in innovating. Not only at the global level -- but even in the indian context, there are so many new challenges which are not solved. There are universities/ grad schools which should be set up in india -- and we are the people who have the capability to do it -- not they. After all there is a reason india is churning out so many engineers -- india is a developing nation. I think if some sizeable fraction of the engineers channel their enrergy/thought to how they can innovate in the indian context India will grow leaps and bounds
What I wan't to enforce here is that not all engineering instituitions back home operate with departing knowledge as their modus operandi.Ofcourse Ipsa scientia potestas est. I feel we don't realize its importance, thanks to outsourcing. People are focussing more to be scavangers than the hunter. Only when the hunter is able to feed himself the scavanger gets full :).
What happen to u my friend. why u dint post any new post.
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