Study finds Hyderabad's engineering students to be 'least employable'

Same study says that 95% of the country's engineers are not fit to take up software development jobs

Engineering students from Hyderabad are among the 'least employable' in the country due to their lack of programming skills, a study conducted by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds has revealed, reported the Times of India on Sunday. 

According to the national daily, the study found that an abysmal 0.7 per cent of the candidates from the city were able to write functionally and logically correct code.

In fact, engineering students from the city came behind their counterparts from New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata, according to the report.

The same study has said