National Education Policy needs to strengthen core engineering disciplines for the success of Industry 4.0: Dr. Rajalaxmi Kamath

The current placement-driven engineering education model has been pushing traditional engineering students towards the IT sector. The right kind of regulatory oversight to ensure interdisciplinarity is necessary to stop engineering colleges from becoming the fabrication centres of foot soldiers for IT and emerging technology markets, write Dr. Rajalaxmi Kamath, faculty in the Public Policy area, and doctoral scholars Vinay V Reddy and A N Manjunath, in Forbes India. This piece is based on an ethnographic study in a private engineering college near Bengaluru.