Abstract

India is today witnessing a major boost in the “demand for English language”. With its firepower of engineers, chartered accountants, doctors, MBAs, lawyers, research analysts, India is well positioned to address the global Knowledge Process Outsourcing / Business Process Outsourcing need. With a ready access to a large intellectual pool and domain expertise in specialized areas, India has been in the business of knowledge process outsourcing and other outsourcing services for more than six years. It will continue to maintain its lead due to its abundant skilled manpower and lead in areas such as qualifications, quality of work, linguistic capabilities and work ethics. No other country can hope to match India in terms of an English- speaking talent pool, not even China, despite its larger population and despite its Herculean efforts to train people in the English language skills. Now on one hand, we are hoping to compete with some of the greatest nations in the world, and on the other hand, Rajasthan is still facing the challenge of being a backward state. Despite being very hardworking and intellectually sound, our younger generation is still struggling for an international exposure on account of below average communication skills. In the present article, through questionnaires and interviews of representatives of academia and industry the researcher has tried to review the curriculum and methodology being followed in the Engineering colleges of Rajasthan. Based on their responses some substantial measures for the improvement in the current curriculum and teaching methodology are being offered which will help in enriching the language training programmes. These measures and suggestions are directly in accordance with the needs of our students and the demands of the corporate world and would further help in affecting improvement in language teaching programmes at college level.