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We must not bring back the licence raj to engineering education

Written by Michael Pinto | Published: January 12, 2018 12:07 am

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Every engineering college cannot be an IIT but the institute can certainly ensure that its graduates are not unemployable. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna)

From bemoaning the lack of technical institutes and colleges of engineering to training young people, we have moved to a situation — as The Indian Express series in December, 2017 shows — where we have too many of them. So workshops that once trained budding engineers are now being used for many other purposes, including wrestling akhadas. The question is if this is a serious problem.