New Delhi: Engineers from Delhi and Bihar are the best when it comes to IT product, IT services, KPO, BPO, software testing and hardware networking roles, according to a survey.
The National Employability Study 2011 by Aspiring Minds after analysing the employability scores of over 1.2 lakh final year engineering graduates reveals that while Delhi engineers are the best when it comes to IT services, BPO, KPO, software testing and hardware testing, engineers from Bihar (including Jharkhand) were the best in IT product roles where Delhi engineers come a close second.
Bihar and Jharkhand engineers took the second spot in IT services, BPO, KPO, software testing and hardware testing roles.
"Delhi has concentration of some well reputed institutes and has emerged as a hub of high quality talent," said Himanshu Aggarwal, Co-Founder and Director of Aspiring Minds.
"While in some states over 3 in every 10 engineers are employable in IT Services industry, this falls drastically to less than 1 in every 10 of the engineers in some states. This dramatic fall in employability standards across states is a disturbing situation. Not only is this detrimental to the education standards and economy of the country, but creates social risks of frustration among 'qualified' engineers. The strong correlation of poor employability to the number of colleges in a state show how states are concentrating on quantity rather than quality," said Aggarwal.
Regionally, it has been observed that employability in IT services companies is highest of engineers in the North, followed by East, then West and then South.
In the North, Delhi, the National winner leads the pack, closely followed by Uttarakhand and Punjab.
East sees Bihar leading with highest employability followed by West Bengal and Orissa.
West sees Gujarat setting benchmarks with the highest employability, Madhya Pradesh follows in Central India.
Kerala emerges with highest employability in the South, followed by Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
In India, there is a concentration of engineering colleges in a few states and the report looked at the ranking of states considered as 'engineering hubs' by employability in IT Services sector. It was revealed that states with more governmentt colleges as compared to private colleges fare better on employability.
Delhi (north) shows highest employability percent followed by Kolkata (East), cities in the West and the lowest employability figures were observed in colleges in southern cities. The
skew in employability is quite high, for instance, the IT product employability in Delhi in as high as 1 in every 9 candidates and as low as 1 in every 200 in Chennai.
Even though Bengaluru (Bangalore) has similar IT services employability as compared to other southern and western cities, it shows much higher employability for IT product companies. This indicates that candidates in Bengaluru do much better at computer programming and algorithms even though they show similar English and cognitive skills.
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