"Only 7 percent of the Indian engineers are capable of handling core engineering tasks... This is the biggest challenge and could limit the growth that India is aiming to achieve," the Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Anantkumar Hegde, said. He stated that only 20 percent of the total engineers are employable in the industry and called 'un-employability' as the biggest hurdle to India's growth.
Hegde was present at the foundation stone laying event of the Centre of Excellence for Aerospace Design Training in Bengaluru.
"Aerospace and aviation is a budding industry in India and the country is gradually realizing the potential and extent of it," he said.
The aerospace training center is set up by the German multinational company P3 Engineering and Consulting in consensus with the National Skill Development Corporation and expects to train 10,000 engineering graduates over the seven years once it's functioning.
The center will train the techies in topics like aero-structures, avionics, aerodynamics, etc.
"In order to address the shortage of skills in the country, each state would soon have an Indian Institute of Skills," the minister said.
"The way we have Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), we will soon have Indian Institutes of Skills to meet the skill requirements of our nation," Mr. Hedge said.
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