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Although many believe that India is an IT superpower, the application of IT for engineering is still in its infancy.

Though there are some success stories such as Tata Consultancy Service’s involvement in the Airbus A380 wing design, for the most part the engineering and construction industries are underdeveloped.

This is why civil engineering in contemporary India remains underpaid and underrated. As the number of graduates continues to fall, it has become more and more difficult to undertake any kind of civil engineering project, even the less complex ones such as grain silos.

There are one or two advanced FEM suites of Indian origin available, such as STAAD. But advanced computing tends to be overlooked, while Public Works Department (PWD) engineers are doing the job by hand. This results in great unnecessary expense.

Expertise in using advanced software is also lacking. It is one thing to purchase a package such as RM2004 (a bridge aerodynamics program) from Europe but another to actually use it. Education thus needs to be modernised.