Are Engineers Really Jobless?

Nowadays, the word engineer has taken quite some jocular form then we have seen it in past. It is now of the famous humorous meme topic which trends on all of the social networking sites. We find this jokes, meme, post and videos quite funny. We watch them, read them and laugh and forget it, again a post come we laugh on. But still, the profession of engineers has not seen any descend in the past years in terms of students opting for it. Even    after watching these posts people still opt engineering, and even engineers watch these laugh on it and continue their engineering, and yes jobless engineers too com come across these videos, posts, memes, and jokes,  they also put it at their status on their respective social networking sites trying to express the tyranny that they are going through. But beside these all their lies a group of engineers those who don’t like this social stuff made on their profession because they find it insulting, disgusting and not at all true. Because in India before analyzing our own faults we start blaming things as it is the easiest thing that can be done.

So, what these engineers think and how they are not jobless engineers of these trending meme. Have you ever thought about it? Let us come to the point, in India every year almost 6 lacs students holds B. Tech degree. In these 6 lacs of B. Tech. holders 10 thousand are from IIT, 18000 from NIT, 7000 from IIIT, and 15000 from government-funded engineering colleges. Besides these approximately 50 thousand seats are available in one of the best private engineering colleges. So, now we can say about 1 lac of qualified engineers has a B. Tech degree. And the thing which is interesting or a jocular you can take as your sense of humor in these 6 lacs of B. Tech holders only these above mentioned 1 lacs of student gets placement. You can say that in every 6 B. Tech holder only 1 gets a placement. And if you have met with any of these engineers or know him, there will be only one who would have studied from a good engineering college and have got placement. There are engineers from those 5 lacs also who gets a placement but the chances are rare and the paths for them are quite difficult. And the most difficult thing is that whenever we will meet with these six engineers only one of them will be at a good position and the rest 5 will be jobless and those on whom we see jokes and social trending post.

So, we can state that because of the numbers of jobless engineers are 5 times greater than the engineers with the job, we have made a universal statement that Engineers are Really Jobless! But it’s not the truth, it is but half.

Approx Fifteen lacs of students appear at JEE MAIN every year. To get a rank under 1 lac, a student needs to get at least more marks than 20 % marks. After fulfillment of these criteria, a student can get a good engineer college either it is IIT, NIT, IIIT, Government College or any good private college. And after getting a B. Tech degree from any of the above-mentioned colleges they can get placement.

On the other hand, we can say that in these 6 lacs of students, only 1 lac of student get more than 20% marks in JEE MAIN and rest to have less than 20 %. And these rest students have done B. Tech from a private college in the hope of a better career opportunity. And they may have taken a loan. They get a B. Tech degree but job?? No!

And we will again see those jokes, meme, and videos and laugh at them and move on.  And yup, Engineers Are Really Jobless?


 Written by 
M. K. Singh

Translated by
Ifa Agnes