A lot has been said about the quality of fresh engineers coming out of our universities in India with optimists saying about 60% of them are unemployable. Others with a more pessimistic view opine that more than 80% of fresh engineers do not make the cut when it comes to good grasp of fundamentals, basic […]

With about 226 engineering colleges (2018) churning out roughly 10,000 Civil Engineering graduates every year in Karnataka alone, one burning question that comes to mind – How are these fresh graduates going to find suitable jobs? To the best of my knowledge, even with the main recruiters such as the Government, contractors, architects and consultants […]

Despite being one of the largest ingredients of our GDP (varying between 8 to 10% over the last decade), the construction industry seems to be the laggard when it comes to a uniform quality assessment system for contracting firms who form a major chunk of the estimated INR 2,800 Billion construction industry in India. Even […]