Who is to be blamed ?

Blame it on Hyderabadis:

Let us stop blaming the institutes and see what Hyderabadis are upto? Let me tell, no where do 
you see exhaustive usage of latest technology as much you see in Hyderabad. Hyderabadis see the
end of any thing new that comes out from the alien land. Whether it is Granites or Shrimp farming or for that matter SAP or Peoplesoft, there is always a Hyderabadi waiting to finish it off. Guess why do Americans have the best satellite technology to date? Because they test their cellular technologies in India. Hence it is more of stature and less of business that cells are maintained. 

What's the reason for this? The Institutes in Hyderabad had been going flat out to offer gazillion
things like Job offer in US and things like that, If we take SAP teaching institutes in the last year, for that matter, they offered jobs in US. Meaning more illegal papers. It is because of those institutes
that H1B's have been tightened.

Let us see from the perspectives of a Chennai based US Consulate. Perhaps Chennai based US
consulate is the only consulate that is toughest on its applicants. Next comes Canadian based US
consulates for Indians. This is b'coz, the Indians are doing window shopping for US Visa since the
law was made. They went to extremes of changing status from student to Job visa and other things.
Matter obviously went out of hand and Canadian based US consultants nailed every Indian they 
could find.

In the event of doing so, they have shot into their own foot by rejecting some genuine candidates.
People like Guru Raj Deshpande and B.Chandrasekhar have created a good economy for the US citizens.
Who knows how many are entering US with such dynamic nature. And who knows how many are getting rejected. 

Though Govt of AP is providing OLIVE (on-line Internet Verification Engine) for US ,it still has
loopholes thanks to the incredible handling of records by the Osmania University.

Blame it on the Colleges?

Now let us throw some light on what the under-grad institutes (Bachelor Colleges) has to offer. A college that has some graduate courses(P.G) has a Principal who teaches database systems to MCA students. When I approached them as a freelance web-programmer and asked if they would like to get their web-site designed, his answer was "what would I get if someone watches it on the Internet. It should be seen by college students". This is the sorry state of affairs when it comes to Computers. Suddenly the same person after an year is teaching JAVA. Students were told that Java was developed by Microsoft. 

First of all students cannot be taught Java without prior knowledge of Object Orientation. Secondly you need an expert at teaching Java. There's no problem with such syllabi being kept but students come out of colleges by approaching exams just to pass it. Looking at Java in their certificates, Companies take them and you know the outcome.

Blame it on Education System?

Many Engineering students have taken themselves for granted that they are sure to land in a 10K p.m job. And as they are thinking, they are getting it. If this is the case why should one keep B.Sc Computers, B.A triple maths or for that matter BCA . Let every course be of engineering order.

Blame it on the Companies?

Let us now see how the Companies have been behaving. Every Company wants B.Tech's and M.Tech's
That is their first criteria. The Companies are more interested to take a below average B.Tech and
train him for six months rather than take an average B.Sc student and make him do the project for lesser salary and with more efficiency. Also the criteria to be considered for top IT giants is the experience. People ask three to four years of experience in Java. The fact that Java was released in 96 in USA and it was taught in the institutes starting 98 in India tells us the point that four years of experience in Java, if anybody has should be paid a salary of one Lakh Rs in India. But still he would be getting $2,500 per month. Why would anyone want to have that salary when he can easily earn 5-6K $ per month in US? Companies know this fact but they want to ignore it. 

The techie Companies which boast of positions being open in the region of Human resources does
not follow a simple management information systems principle of employing 10 people for a salary of Rs.2,000/-and get the work done instead of paying Rs 25,000 an to an expert (like our below average engineering candidate) to get the work done. And is the work then too perfect? It is a doubt. Third, the companies are not equipped enough technically or strategically to handle themselves and so how are they going to the handle the overseas projects? A Company in Secunderabad had a project for developing Video Conferencing using Java and JMF (Java Media Framework). It is usually meant that one software development project spans six months .This company wants it to be developed in two weeks. So ,there you have it, this company is unaware of what the possibilities are of a typical Software engineering project or its software related issues.

Things can go on like this forever if we try to find where the problem lies. The areas mentioned above are only some grey mattered ones but if these areas are worked out then most of things will fall into its place.

Meanwhile it is being reported that the limit for H1 Visas are going to be removed and while Hyderabadis look for more grey areas to get their H1's........good luck for your H1B hunting.