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IEN Members,
As India stands at the crossroads and is poised to make a giant leap towards development let us work to do our part in making "environment sector" the career of choice for young professionals in India. That alone will ensure sustainable development.
Last few months I have been inundated by emails from young environmental professionals and students trying to understand their career prospects in the Indian Environment sector. To help them find their feet I have built a quick survey for each one of you take about the various Job Titles in the Indian Environment sector and the career prospect for each of these titles.
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Again, you owe it to the future generation to help organize the Indian Environment sector and contribute positively to their career so they don;t leave it for lucrative careers in other sectors.
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The "journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step". Let's take that step today!
Chandra Kishore
ien@paryavaran.com
Founder
Indian Environment Network
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In India there are several sector where really need to work only and only environmental engineer, unfortunately neither government nor private sector given proper weight age and restriction at entry level in placement. only few institute introduce environmental engineering course but placement part is missing. In all municipal office must be restricted post for environment engineer, not environmental science and other PG diploma etc. this will not only bring good environment as well as future vision
Wonderful information
Thank you so much Piyush for your inputs. My daughter wishes to pursue Environmental Engg/Ocean Engg at B,Tech level, which is restricted to 2-3 IITs and 2 NIITs, so the need to widen the options.
I wasn't aware of the Delhi college of Engg, so thank you for this information. And yes, any inputs along these lines would be welcome.
On another note, you are right, neither are there many takers, nor much prospects in India. But here is a message for all those wanting to pursue studies in this domain. The potential is tremendous, but you need to top up your B.Tech / B.Sc with a specialisation / niche area - disaster mgt, earthquake engg., GIS, water resources, agriculture, climate resilience or even IT if you are keen on the programming / technology side.
I did my engineering in Environmental specialisation from Northern India Engineering College, GGSIPU, Delhi. However now my college has closed this specialisation as they didn't see any profit in this field. But I heard environment engineering again have been started with a intake of 30 students in some govt engineering college affiliated by GGSIPU in Delhi only. So you can try there. We'll you can try in Delhi college of engineering with intake of 30 and you can try at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad with intake of 30. Its very rare to get engineering degree in Environmental specialisation.
Well wish you good luck. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.
Piyush
it is pity that not only young people but people who have completed PhD from good institute (like me) are unable to find jobs in desired sector of environment. I wanted to work for wildlife but i am not given a break as i lack proper degree for the same.Apart, i am not allowed to pursue the degree due to lack of basic degree. Its sad part of India...........hope things to improve for the young generation
Is there any listing of colleges or institutes offering environment engineering or allied (ocean engg, etc) courses? Any information would be appreciated.