Interest, Money, available education.. and the requirement of society..

The education, Disciplines .. reminds me one thing.
When my Bro was doing his Engineering Dad suggested him to do Mechanical Engineering. Bro was also interested in that.. he did best there. But during his final year (1997) everyone thought IT is the best thing. Even though he was very good at computers did not join Infy or Wipro.. or did not go to US to fix Y2K bug..

There were 20+ Steel plants for which MoU was signed between My State govt+Govt of India and foreign investors.. He was expecting to be placed in one of those..

But sad ... those did not start in right time.. and after almost 15 years when they have again re-planned to .. the situation is changed..
There are many IT engineers.. even engineers from core streams (mechanical electrical and all that) score good marks in C++ but get OK like marks in the core subjects because they know they are going to work in software or will do their MBA.. they are now not interested in working in dusty environment near the blast furnace ..
Today companies are recruiting core engineers from other states.. Maoist and other groups who are against progress say you are not recruiting our local graduates.. provocating every one to carry out strike..

We need to understand and create balance between different type of education and discipline...
We need to think about it..