PREFACE

The Government of India has set up the National Technical Manpower Information System project in 1983 with a view to generate and maintain a reliable data bank needed for technical manpower planning and administration of technical education on proper direction.

The objectives assigned to the system include estimation of short term and long term requirements of various categories of engineering and technical manpower and their supply, identification of anticipated gaps in demand and supply positions and also to assess the adequacy of current enrolment rate in respect of each of the engineering and technical manpower categories.

Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Delhi is the Lead Centre for this project and 20 Nodal Centres spread all over the country of which four are located in Regional Boards of Apprenticeship and Training. Nodal Centre for Tamil Nadu under the National Technical Manpower Information System scheme is functioning in the Department of Economics and Statistics, Government of Tamilnadu at Chennai.

The present review pertaining to the State of Tamil Nadu is the Seventeenth in the series. The review has been prepared using the data gathered from the Graduates and Diploma holders who passed out in the year 2003 from various institutions of the State after two years of their graduation, with reference to the year 2004-05 for Engineering Educational Institutions and with reference to the year of 2004-05 for employing institutions.

The results are presented as per the tabular format prescribed by the Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Delhi.

It is hoped that this report would be useful to the educational administrators, planners, educational institutes, employers and the future engineers in their planning activities.

Place: Chennai Date : 12- 12-2007

Dr. M. MURUGHAN, M.Sc. (Stats)., M.B.A., Ph.D PROJECT OFFICER