IIT, NIT graduates tasked with improving engineering college standards through a central government scheme are out of jobs, in debt.
Many GATE qualified candidates who were recruited to teach in engineering colleges in various states are jobless now. (Picture source: TEQIP faculties)
Sanjay
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May 27, 2022 – 12:20 p.m. IST
NEW DELHI: When Dharmendra Kumar Singh from Bihar’s Rohtas district got admission in MTech in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee after clearing Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2015, his achievement made it into the local papers. He was a source of inspiration, not just for friends and family, but the entire district. Seven years on, he’s more of a cautionary tale.
“I have become someone through whom a message is being sent out to the society that one should not go for technical education,” he said. He is a “source of demotivation”, as he puts it.
