M. Anandakrishnan, former Chairman of IIT, Kanpur has stated to improve the standard of engineering colleges and quality of engineering education in Tamil Nadu, 50% of engineering colleges in the State should be closed down and the rest streamlined and the existing syllabus and teaching methodologies should be upgraded.
When presiding over the 15th International Tamil Internet Conference held at Gandhigram Rural Institute near here on Friday, he has said that quality of education offered by the existing engineering colleges was very poor, but jobs were available only for five lakh students and around 10 lakh graduates were rendered jobless every year and have been working as mechanics and technicians in metro cities for a paltry sum, much less than the wages of daily wage workers.
He has also pointed out that teaching faculties in engineering colleges too did not know their duty and responsibility and the existing engineering colleges have been producing graduates with no employability skills.
He has suggested that IITs were prepared to assist engineering colleges around them to enhance the quality of education, teaching methods and class room techniques and the engineering colleges could get assistance from IITs.
