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PANAJI
At least 3,228 students passed out from Goa’s engineering colleges in the last three years (2016-2019), yet the government has ensured jobs for just 89 of these!
In a written reply tabled in the Assembly by the Education Minister (charge held by CM Pramod Sawant) on Monday, Sawant furnished the number of Bachelor of Engineering/Technology and Masters of Engineering graduates from the different fields of engineering of the six engineering colleges in Goa -- two government (GEC and NIT), and four private (PCCE, DBCE, RIT and AITD) which amounted to 3,228. The list does not include BE graduates of 2017-18 from the GEC as results were not declared at the time of giving the reply. The Education Minister got the figures from the Directorate of Technical Education, in a reply to a question tabled by Tivim MLA Nilkanth Halarnkar.
In answer to Halarnkar’s query about the number of vacancies created in the government and private sector for engineering graduates, Sawant replied that a mere 89 posts had been created, all in the teaching field.
Of the 3,228 engineering graduates, maximum are from the Electronics and Telecommunications (ETC) field, with over 250 students passing out in the field every year. The number of graduates in this field over the past three years however has steadily declined. ETC is followed closely by Mechanical engineering graduates at approximately 240 graduates a year.
None of the six colleges maintain any sort of record of the kind of the number of students from their respective
institutions who do not get placements, says the reply given by Sawant.
In response to Halarnkar’s question about what steps were being taken to solve the unemployment problem amongst engineering graduates, Sawant claimed that training and workshops were given to students so that they are better prepared for placements.
The Education Minister has also claimed that career related guidance and counselling has been given to students by calling “industrial experts.”
The other things that are being done, said Sawant, is “encouraging students to develop product related novel ideas to become entrepreneurs through start-up cell,” “inviting industries to conduct project competitions”, “singing MoUs with reputed organisations and industries to promote students,” and “conducting pool campus drives.”
