36 pct of Engineering Graduates "Are Not Even Trainable"

He also advised JNTU-K to take special care of the affiliated engineering colleges to create engineers having employable skills. He said that the profession of an engineer is highly demanding. An engineer has to find a balance between his personal and professional life. “You can perform well in your job as well as life only if you are physically tough and own healthy life,” said the Metro Man, as reported in The Times of India, and hinted that the fast food culture and lack of physical exercise will affect the performance of engineers in the future. Sreedharan referred Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvarya who had enjoyed good health all through his life span of 102 years in his speech at JNTU-K.

“Though there are more than 700 colleges in Andhra Pradesh, there are not enough quality professors and principals to manage so many collages. The facilities are also below-standard in most of them which is the root cause for the engineering standards to go down,” he concluded, reports IBN.