Role of Technical Universities and Industry in Facilitating Enhancement of Employability:A Road Map

This paper brings out, the role of technical universities and the industry in working together to enhance the employability of graduates of Engineering Colleges. This has become necessary, due to exponential growth of engineering colleges and enrollments therein, leading to acute faculty shortage . . 1 technical university helps in providing a common standards and quality filters, through which all colleges affiliated to that University have to pass. This, however, does not give any assurances unless industry is actively involved in hand holding and provides a pro-active support. This is possible, if industry views the academic institutions as the nursery of their future talent pool. A technical university can enforce this through a policy initiative which all colleges affiliated to it, will have to implement.