Just 3% of desi techies have AI skills: Study

NEW DELHI: The seventh annual report on employability by Aspiring Minds, one of the largest employability assessment and job credentialing companies in the world, sounds a tocsin for governments and administrators of our technical institutions: The US has a much higher proportion, almost four times, of engineers who can code than India.

The report shows that only 3.84% of our engineers have the technical, cognitive, and language skills necessary for software related start-ups. Additionally, a mere 3% of engineers have new-age skills in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data science, and mobile development.

Varun Aggarwal, co-founder and CTO of Aspiring Minds, says: “We found that only about 3% of engineers have new-age skills in AI, data, mobile, and cloud. This is a situation which must be immediately remedied — both for the sake of Indian industry, and our relevance to the world at large.”