With industry raising concerns about poor quality of output from engineering colleges, the Andhra Pradesh Government has the State Council for Higher Education to revamp engineering education to suit the requirements of the industry.

Though 2.70 lakh graduates come out of engineering colleges every year, a majority of them are found to be not employable.

While this forces the industry to spend huge amounts on training, engineering students remain job less for lack of required skills.

To tackle this issue, the State Government constituted a committee to revamp curriculum.

The committee will comprise Mr Amarnath Reddy Atmakuri, Chief Executive Officer of the Andhra Pradesh Society for Knowledge Networks (Member–Convener), Prof. Rameshwara Rao, Vice-Chancellor (JNTU–Hyderabad), Prof. Tulasi Ram Das, Vice-Chancellor (JNTU–Kakinada) and Prof. Satyanarayana, Vice-Chancellor (Osmania University).

The committee, which met on Wednesday, resolved to involve industry leaders. It also decided to set up a task force to review the existing training material and compile material to suit industry requirements.

It is not going to be one-time affair.

The task force would continuously monitor the needs and suggest changes accordingly, Mr Lakshmaiah said here in a press release.

On Thursday, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Minister for Information Technology, discussed this issue with Mr Jayaprakash Rao, Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education, Mr Sanjay Jaju, Principal Secretary (IT) and Mr Amarnath Reddy Atmakuri. He asked them to convene a meeting with all Vice-Chancellors to bring in radical changes in the engineering education system.

The committee will meet in the first week of March to take stock of progress.

>kurmanath@thehindu.co.in

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