A
condemnatory report against the All India Council For Technical
Education (AICTE) by a state-level expert committee says, "It is
clear that there are too many inadequate institutes with innumerable
programmes and considerable examples of misleading nomenclatures.”
The
calculation says that India has 234 degree and 399 diploma
engineering courses. "It is unfavorable that the AICTE has
approved different nomenclatures for basic engineering courses and
increased the number of undergraduate engineering programmes, which
is reminiscent of the ruination of engineering education," the
report says.
Entered
as separate courses in ACITE handbook are electrical and electronics
engineering, electrical engineering, electrical and power
engineering, electrical and electronics (power system). The committee
has proposed that the courses will be offered as one programme, i.e.
electrical engineering.
It
is
stated
that
there
are
42
degree
programmes
in
electrical
engineering
and
electronics
all
with
foreign
nomenclature,
which
reveal
that
these
have
been
created
for
the
ease
of
private
institutes.
A
member of the committee said that “A new college has to start with
a minimum student absorption of 300, distributed equally among five
branches. Different nomenclatures benefit predominated institutes
that want only popular disciplines,”
In
a report it is said that “In India, more diploma holders are
granted to seek degree programmes to fill vacancies and more
management institutes are created to provide a channel to the
increasing number of unemployable engineering graduates. As there are
no corresponding opportunities in the manufacturing sector, the
higher education system produces pools of ill-trained, unemployable
professionals going for poorly paid jobs.”
