(a) the approximate number of Graduate Engineers passing
out every year in the country;
(b) whether India has enough infrastructure to absorb
all of them; and
(c) if so, the measures taken to provide employment to
all graduate engineers to solve unemployment problem?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (PROF. RITA VERMA)
(a) to (c) : Though the All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) grants approval for intake of students
in engineering colleges throughout the country, admission
to which is done through the State Level Committees. The
details of students eventually passing out from more than
thousand engineering colleges, affiliated to different
universities, throughout the country is not maintained
centrally. Students passing out from engineering
colleges get absorbed in various organisations both in
India and abroad and also in areas of self-employment.