India's engineering education needs quality reset in AI era

India has a lot of engineering colleges, but many students are not learning enough to get good jobs.

Leaders like Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy have talked about this problem.

A long time ago, India needed many engineers for computer work, so it built many colleges.

Now there are enough colleges, but the teaching is not always very good.

Many students memorize facts instead of learning how to solve real problems.

New AI tools can answer questions and write code, so old-style teaching is becoming less useful.

The article says schools should teach students to think, design, and solve problems.

Teachers should become helpers and mentors instead of just lecturers.

The goal is to make sure students can actually do things with what they learn, not just collect degrees.