The unprecedented rapid rise in number of engineering colleges in Jammu & Kashmir state during last more than two decades has been though allowed by the successive popular governments with the intentions of exposing the youth to modern day technological trends, but now new passing-out youngsters don’t find better avenues for their proper professional placements within the state. Most of the passing out youngsters of new engineering colleges run by some private educational trusts are frustrated for the reasons of not finding lucrative job opportunities either in public or private. The unplanned expansion of the engineering colleges has consequently pushed the passing out youngsters into a hopeless situation. The expansion of the engineering colleges should have been proportionate to job openings for the engineers in both public and private sector and now when the thousands of engineering passing out youngsters are competing for few hundred jobs and find no big job opportunities available in never expanded private sector , they have a situational compulsion to hut for jobs in other parts of the country and some highly industrialized countries. The helpless situation for the new passing out youngsters of ever expanding engineering college is the consequential outcome of the unplanned expansion of the engineering colleges in the state. Undoubtedly availability of adequate technocratic manpower is imperative for the growth of both small and large scale industries in the state, but it does not mean that government should allow unplanned growth of engineering colleges and leave the expansion of small of large scale industries unattended for years together. The government has moral and administrative obligation to take care of the job aspirations of thousands of fresh engineering graduates of the state.
Though it can not be implied that students getting degrees from such ill-equipped engineering colleges are not supposed to become competent engineers in practice, but the unplanned growth of engineering colleges is surely raising the burden of unemployment in technological and industrial sector sin Jammu & Kashmir state.
It is well understood a fact that when thousands of passing out youngsters of different engineering colleges will remain unemployed for years toghether after spending 4-5 years of the precious time of their prime youth and investing few lakhs of rupees money on their studies, they are bound to get frustrated. While the fact remains that permission to open private engineering colleges has become a lucrative business with students paying money in tune of millions for admission, the government on its part is doing nothing to stop unplanned expansion of engineering colleges in the state. Politicians play big role in managing permission for the new engineering which have mandatory requirement of approval by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), but it is shocking to know that many engineering colleges manage floating staff with all fabricated employment-record to satisfy visiting teams from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Even though members of the inspecting-teams may know the reality, but it becomes difficult for them to detect many irregularities and shortage of infrastructural facilities for a variety of reasons . Though it can not be implied that students getting degrees from such ill-equipped engineering colleges are not supposed to become competent engineers in practice, but the unplanned growth of engineering colleges is surely raising the burden of unemployment in technological and industrial sector sin Jammu & Kashmir state.
