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Research | Engineering Education | Emerging Technology Vacant seats in a foundational engineering branch do not, by themselves, prove that the branch has become obsolete. They may instead reveal a widening distance between what students believe employers want, what institutions teach, and what a rapidly changing industrial economy actually requires. Indian admission data show a

India now runs one of the largest education systems on the planet. Nearly 24.69 crore students sit in 14.71 lakh schools, taught by more than 1.01 crore teachers. Higher education has grown too: about 4.50 crore students were enrolled in 2023 to 24. Those numbers are worth sitting with for a second. But scale isn’t

Walk through most Indian college campuses today and you’ll see the same things you saw a decade ago: diesel generators humming during power cuts, water tankers filling up hostel tanks, mountains of single-use plastic near the canteen. Nearly 1,168 universities and over 45,000 colleges operate across the country, and a large share of them are