Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on 10 February 2020 raised the matter of high rate of unemployment among technical and engineering graduates in India. Tharoor asked the government to list the steps taken by the AICTE to tackle this situation. Replying to Tharoor's query, Human Resources Development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that AICTE has shifted to a result-oriented syllabus in which mandatory internship is a key part of the education.