CAREER MYTHS

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The destiny of new born in India is always pre expected based on their gender. If the new born is male then he is destined to be engineer someday and if it is a female then medical is the only field available to them. In India 95% of male and female are pressurized to become engineer and doctors respectively no matter whether they are capable of doing or not. Parents decide the future of their new born on the same day they are born and from day one of their life they are told to study hard and choose a career either in engineering or in medical field.

I do not know the reason behind this trend but it has not done any good either to the parents or to their children. But it has creating a sense of insecurity amongst the children that they cannot decide to choose a career other than these. 10 -15 years back engineering and medical were the only lubricative career available to the Indians but today the scenario has changed.
Today we have a lot of alternative careers for these but still Indian parents are obsessed with engineering and medical and this is something which is beyond understanding. It is becoming very hard to understand the mental condition of parents that why they are so preoccupied with only two professional courses even when we have other professional courses which give similar package respect and even better scope.

The result of this trend is very interesting. Today there are three engineers per five household and two medical professional per five house hold in India. Indians have a tendency that if their wards are either engineers or doctors they will be given their due respect in the society. This aforesaid and social status cannot be achieved by pursuing other careers such is the mind set if Indians.

Just imagine the situation where more than 50% of the country’s population is pursuing engineering and medical. Can we still imagine other sector to grow and prosper in these conditions. Even you forget about the other sectors just take these two sectors: these two sectors are only providing quantity of candidate and with quality they have nothing to do.
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Data from the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the regulatory body for professional technical education, shows that the dash to start professional colleges are more pronounced when it comes to engineering as compared to other streams like pharmacy, hotel management and catering technology or architecture. There were 2,297 engineering colleges with a total student intake capacity for 8.19 lakh students and close to 1,500 management institutes with an annual intake of 1.5 lakh students (2008-'09).
The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) receives more than 900 applications for starting engineering colleges institute every year. Five Indian states-Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala-account for almost 69% of the country's engineering graduates.This year too most applications for starting new institutes have come from these states, causing worry between educationists about a regional imbalance creeping in. States like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Orissa together account for a measly 14% of India's technological colleges.