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We have a number of institutions but if they convert the Government institutions into some other means, that will cut off the rare chances of students aspiring for engineering courses. That will also be curtailed in the future. So, I strongly object to the reduction in the number of reserved seats in these institutions.
We have just gone through the situation of the Indian Institutes of Technology. We have 23 IITs. The first IIT was established in 1951 at Kharagpur; then, the IITs at Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi were established. Out of 64,432 students who are studying, a recent report which appeared in the newspaper said that in 2017 itself nine per cent drop out has happened in IITs; 886 students dropped out in 2016-17; 630, which is 71 per cent of PG students, 196 Ph.D students and 193 undergraduate students have dropped out. What is happening? Who is dropping out of IITs? They are mainly from the reserved categories.
They cannot continue their studies because of the harassment. The vacancies reserved for teaching faculty in the IITs are still not filled up; 35 per cent of these vacancies still continue in our premier engineering institutions, the Indian Institutes of Technology.
The Government is going to move their control completely and hand over these institutions to the private market. That will not help our future generation; that will not help our country; that will not help the majority of the toiling masses of this country. I request the Government to rethink and re-frame the entire Bill and give adequate representation in teaching faculty and student seats in these institutions so that we can create more engineering students and more responsible persons in the engineering field in the future.
Before I conclude my speech, I would like to say this. We produce more than eight lakh engineering students every year but the unemployment in the engineering sector is 60 per cent. I request the Government to give utmost importance to creating jobs. The Government declared at the beginning that two crore jobs would be created each year. They have completed three years but nothing has happened. I would request the Government to create jobs because in the IT sector those who have gone abroad are facing problems and have come back.
Now we are going in for public-private partnership. I request the Minister for HRD and the hon. Finance Minister to look into the grievances of the University which were there during the UPA Government. I request them to set things right for that University which is one of the best Universities in the country today.
I request Shri Javadekar and Shri Arun Jaitley to come to the rescue of the University and look into the mistakes done during the UPA Government.
Many Members said that engineering students should not become job seekers. Shri Visvesvaraya had said: “industrialise or perish”. Today, when most of the engineering students take admissions, they aspire for Government jobs. They should not become job seekers; they should become job creators.