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employers might grapple with skill shortage, says a survey.

The FICCI-World Bank survey of 150 firms found that 64 per cent employers said it was difficult to find engineering graduates with the right communication skills.

However, the graduates from the IITs and National Institute of Technology (NITs) were kept out of the survey, it was clarified.

Conducted during September and October this year, the survey also revealed that the graduates passing out from the private and some government colleges mushrooming rapidly nowadays, were found wanting in 'reliability'.

"If colleges want to improve the employability of their graduates, they have to focus on reducing...Skill-gaps through improvements in curriculum and teaching-methods," World Bank Analyst and co-author of the Employer Satisfaction Survey Hiroshi Saeki said.

Importantly graduates need to formulate, analyse and solve a real life problem using standard engineering techniques, Saeki said.

India produces about 400,000 engineers every year and different surveys have shown that only one-fourth were employable.