Jobs in India and IIT students contribution

Talking about India's most reputed technology institutes, IIT has a global respect and they do have high quality eduction standards.

What people dont know much is the employment generation via each passing out student of IIT.

Here is an news from rediff focusing on the importance of IITians social contribution in terms of employment and enterprenuership.

An Indian Institute of Technology survey says every IIT-ian has created 100 jobs and that every rupee spent on an IIT-ian has 'created an economic impact of Rs 50 at the global level, half of which is India's share'.

The study is a global Internet-based survey that attempts to map the impact of IIT-ians on the global economy across areas like entrepreneurship, scientific and technological achievement, social transformation, research, educational and leadership.

The survey takes stock of the contribution made by IIT-ians over the last half a century across professions and geographies, and to create a fact-base for mobilising IITs and IIT-ians to find out how they can do even more.

The impact study was launched on September 22 and more than 4,500 IIT alumni have participated in it, providing a robust sample from which to draw preliminary conclusions.

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