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Why are so many engineers unemployed?

MOST OF youths in India have this trend of joining engineering or medical colleges after opting for science in 11th or 12th . Many of them don’t have any passion for engineering and regret it later! the first mistake  some do is when they take science in 11th and 12th; No interest, no exposure and parental or society’s pressure make them join engineering colleges;  In India, A normal Engineering student is pursuing engineering because everybody is doing so ! And that’s how  the story of worthless degrees and unemployable graduates  start! Demand and supply  According to the HRD ministry, India has 6,214 engineering and technology institutions which are enrolling 2.9 million students. Around 1.5 million engineers are released into the job market every year. in the years of late 90s and the beginning of 2000s, there was a wide shortage of the engineers in India; very few engineers who got graduated from good institutes. Companies were in search of engineers and were havin

Can you please provide genuine information on India's current population and average age and how many are employed and unemployed? How many are entrepreneurs and how many people have salaries?

I don’t have the proper census report on all topics; but here are some data that i have for study! Population is increasing at 1.2% annually and it’s more than our country can handle! Of the 1.21-billion people in the country, the worker population ratio is 39 percent at the national level, with 40 percent in rural areas and 36 percent in urban areas. Around 51% of Indian workers are self-employed, mostly in rural areas, while 33.5% of them are casual labour (33.5%) and only 15.6% have salaried employment. As per socio-economic study conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation from July 2011 to June 2012, Anant said salaried employees or workers with regular wages were nearly six times more in urban areas (41.4 percent) than 7.3 percent in rural areas, showing the wide disparity in the employment comfort level of the workforce across the country. Of the total (472.9 million) employed in 2011-12,