94 Percent Of India's It Graduates Are Not Fit For Hiring: Tech Mahindra Ceo

In a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds in 2018, only 4.77 percent of candidates can write the correct logic for a programme — a minimum requirement for any programming job. More than 95% of the engineers in the country were not fit for the software development jobs.

CP Gurnani, CEO of Tech Mahindra says that 94% of IT graduates are not eligible for jobs in Indian IT companies. He added that the top 10 IT companies hire only 4-5% of the total engineering graduates then what happens to the rest 95%?

Gurnani said, "Let me give you an example from a city like Delhi. A student scoring 60% marks cannot pursue BA-English today but can definitely go in for engineering. My point is simple are we not creating people for unemployment," he said adding, "The point is if I am looking for a robotics person and instead, I get a mainframe person, then it creates a skill gap. This comes as a big challenge."

Gurnani says that entry into new technology such as Manpower Skilling and Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, is a big challenge for Indian IT companies. They think that when it comes to jobs, big IT companies do not consider 94% of IT graduates eligible for this.

Most of the engineering colleges of India except IIT's and other prestigious colleges are not able to provide quality educations to students that would get them suitable jobs. The faculty in Indian colleges are neither trained well nor they have that much knowledge except IIT'S and NIT'S. In order to improve the quality of education in the country, AICTE is likely to introduce six-month teachers training for the faculties who would be employed at the engineering colleges.

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