The institution made this program mandatory for the first year graduates from coming academic year. The idea being to equip students with professional communication, listening and paraphrasing, and in articulating thoughts.
The mix of students from rural-urban paradigm poses major challenges to newer IITs which are faculty and curriculum based. It is the need of the hour for these prestigious institutions to tackle the hurdle so as to keep up the credibility of IIT.
 Efforts were made in the past to develop soft skills among students in IIT-Bombay, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur, by collaborating with professional soft skill trainers which succeeded to a great extent with extensive courses.
Another recent initiative taken up Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD) called Quality enhancement in engineering education program (QEEE), which trains students from 124 engineering colleges across the country. QEEE conducts workshops and offers certificate courses in soft skills development among other subjects.
Tutors of this program are professors from IITs, who must directly interact with the students. This major step of MHRD has proved the importance of soft skills among students to make them job-ready in rising competition.
Professors of IITs have expressed the importance of communication along with technical skills. According to Uday B Desai, director, IIT Hyderabad, "Our students are good in technology and engineering but communication is vital in the real world. Whether they become CEOs, CTOs, or entrepreneurs, they need these skills," reports Times of India.
Ravi Sinha, professor-in-charge, placement, IIT Bombay said, “Accordingly, we have decided to overhaul the system, which includes redefining the placement team to better meet students’ requirements.” reports DNA.
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