Analysis of problems faced by the postgraduate scholars to get employment in Rajasthan

The present study aimed at identifying the constraints faced and suggestions as reported by the postgraduate scholars for getting employability. In Rajasthan, out of five agricultural universities, three agriculture universities namely MPUAT (Udaipur), SKNAU (Jobner) and SKRAU (Bikaner) running postgraduate programmes for more than 20 years were selected purposively. From each university 30 respondents were selected randomly. The primary data were collected using questionnaire method and analysed using simple tabular analysis. The results revealed that the major constraints faced by the postgraduate scholars in getting employability were lack of desirable employability generating aptitude among teachers involved in higher agriculture education, lack of expected level of well qualified teaching staff with expected teaching skills &improper orientation from academic institutions about the job opportunities. As reported by the respondents to getting employability the major suggestions were need to include more practical exercises in the course curriculum to improve team work and coordination, provide better training to the scholars to face the job interviews confidently &provision of higher agriculture education in the real fields than in the classroom.