Aravind's parents think he has wasted the last three years.
On the face of it, they would be wrong.
The 20-year-old last year collected his diploma in mechanical trade from the government's Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in West Delhi.
However impressive as that sounds, Aravind has not landed the kind of job he dreamt of.
"I have been interviewed and rejected by multiple firms. My CV has done the rounds of all the local component manufacturers here, without much success," he says.
His classmates echo the despondency, and so do the droves passing out of other ITIS.
Major industry recruiters, they say, have little or no regard for their certificates, that they are not interested in graduates from ITIs and other short-term skill training institutes.
"Employers would either ask for practical experience or simply say that the course did not meet their needs," says one of Aravind's friends.
Several faculty members in a couple of government-run ITIs in Delhi agree that the courses are becoming obsolete, and recruiters are moving away from ITI-certified candidates, or other short-term training institutes, leading to a decline in interest among students.
The voices are not going unheard.
As this newspaper reported on Monday, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will soon release the first ever ranking of ITIS, says a top government official.
Similar to the National Institutional Ranking Framework for higher education, ITI rankings will be conducted annually to help students and employers assess the quality of these skilling institutes.
This comes in the wake of the initiatives in this year's Union Budget.
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