AICTE to remove disciplines with low employment potential

AICTE to remove disciplines with low employment potential

From the academic year 2020-21, AICTE will remove the discipline with low employment potential and will permit only disciplines which have a brighter scope in future such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. Lok Sabha was informed of this development on Monday. Responding to the questions during the question hour, HRD Minister said that engineering students are being trained so that they can be a part of make in India initiative by the government. In a bid to bridge the gap between the industry and the students AICTE has mandated the internship for the students. Responding to a question on employability, he said that the IIT students are placed in 200 of the top 500 companies of the world. Shashi Tharoor from the Congress claimed that there is a mismatch between the skills learned by the students and needed by the industry. He said that the mismatch should be removed. Taking a dig at the PM he said that if right skills are imparted to the students then they won’t have to sell the pakodas. In a written response, Nishank said “AICTE will not allow new conventional disciplines with low employment potential from the academic year 2020-21 and will allow only new and emerging fields like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Robotics, Quantum Computing, Data Sciences, Cyber Security, and 3D Printing and Design.”

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