A Framework to Create Employability Skills for Small and Medium Scale Industry

Abstract

Many recent surveys in India are proving a huge gap between industry expectations from engineering students and students’ employability skills. These surveys had majorly focused on employability skills required for MNCs but not been catered for SMEs and MSMEs of rural area. We are focusing on employability skills required for SMEs and MSMEs in the local region. Even the Indian government is promoting Atma Nirbhar Bharat scheme under which there will be a huge demand for skilled engineers in the local region. Authors are in connection with industries in the local region and prepared a framework to fill the gap between local industries and Engineering Institutes situated in a rural area. Our framework helps engineering students and faculty members to work on industry assigned work which will sharpen their skills required by industry. Our framework is solving burning issues like employability of engineers, lack of manpower for local SMEs and MSMEs and placements for institutes situated in remote areas. Even working with local industry during study inculcates seeds of entrepreneurship in students' minds.