The question of providing employment

The question of providing employment to the educated young men of the country is assuming threatening proportions. On the one hand, State Governments as well as the Union Government are trying hard to expand educational facilities in both the urban and the rural areas; on the other, our schools and colleges of the existing pattern are swelling the ranks of the educated unemployed in India. These unemployed youths 'are a potential danger to. the functioning of democracy in the .country; they threaten the very foundations of our socio - economic structure and political stability. The country, therefore, faces today the spectra of unemployment more than ever before. This spectra haunts our hard-won freedom with
threats of violent upheavals and mass unrest. There is widespread hunger and poverty in our country, and without proper employment
This problem cannot be solved. 1here is also a yawning gulf between the educated youths and the opportunities of employment. The country has to bridge this gulf to make itself truly prosperous and strong.

Tamilndu Top Engineering colleges

1. Sri Sivasubramania Nadar College of Engineering ranked (3rd),
2. Velammal Engineering (5th),
3. Meenakshi Sundarajan (9th)
4. Pallavan College of Engineering (11th),
5. Sri Sairam Engineering (12th),
6. Prince Shri Venkateswara Padmavathi Engineering (15th),
7. Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering-Sriperambudur (16th),
8. Jeppiaar Engineering College (20th) and
9. St. Joseph's College of Engineering (23rd)
Above are the institutions in the "Top-25" around Chennai.
The other 21 colleges are from other districts.

However, the colleges in question say that while in some institutions, the pass percentage may be high; the number of students who appeared should also be taken into consideration. For example, Kongu Engineering College has a pass percentage of 81.87, ranked number 4 in the list.
What clearly sets apart the Tier I schools from the Tier II and Tier III ones is the recruiter's perception. Although the survey gave 40% weightage to placements, it's important to realize that recruiter's perception has a definite and undeniable effect on the placement pattern of an institute. It is also a critical component of brand equity and contributes significantly to the brand building process (read IITs). Interestingly, while SSN College of Engineering in Chennai failed to make to the perception chart despite making it to the Tier I list amongst 150 all-India (the perception score given in the survey is an average that was allotted to all institutes recruiters chose not to rate); IIT Guwahati, which came at #6 in the study, features way below at #21 on the perception chart. This IIT has not only failed to leverage the IIT brand name, but has also fallen victim to the political uncertainty in the state.

STEALING SHOW: V. Bhooma, SSN College of Engineering,

CHENNAI: `As you think, so you become' is the chant of the MAXonians. It was the training of J.N. Reddy in Bahula Siddhi meditation that helped V. Bhooma, an `above average' student studying Computer Science engineering in SSN College of Engineering, perform a double Ashtavadhanam memory feat at the World University Service Centre on Monday.
Volley of questions
Several judges throwing questions at her on 16 different topics, ranging from the latest `India Today' magazine, the periodic table of elements, income tax sections, self-development books in English and Tamil, the Melakarta Ragas, quotations, Chennai pin codes, the perpetual calendar, countries and capitals, historical dates, phobias and micro-processor codes.
Besides answering the questions volleyed at her, Ms. Bhooma also listed out the series in a shuffled deck of cards, recalled random digits and random binary digits in boxes that the audience had given her.
Focussed on getting a place in the Limca book of records, the engineering student was hardly fazed by the crowd at the programme organised by the Madras Academy for Excellence (MAX).
MAX has helped individuals set Limca and world records in memory, and broken the Guinness record in `perpetual calendar memory'. It has also conducted national and Asian memory championships and a world memory fair, Dr. Reddy said. MAX celebrated its 13th anniversary recently. The MAX Excellence Awards were presented to R.S. Munirathnam of the RMK Group of Institutions and G. Santhanam, secretary and correspondent, SBOA Schools.
Earlier there were memory feat demonstrations by Narasimhan, Sriram, Arun and Ayyalusamy, a 63-year-old history teacher. The organisation can be contacted through phone at 044 - 23611432 or 23611492.