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Car Designers in demand

As several global car companies are moving to India, so are the interesting car professions. For those Indian youth who wanted to try their hands at car designing, here’s your chance now. Forget IT sector, automobile sector is the next big boom in the country.

The car companies are now looking for car designers. An industry estimate puts the number to around 10,000 automotive designers over the next seven years. In fact, freshers are being offered anywhere from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 10 lakh remuneration per year. Taking a cue from new trends, leading design institutes of India have already started offering course in car designing. Some of these institutes are National Institute of Design (NID) located in Ahmedabad, Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) in Pune, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT Mumbai, IIT Guwahati, IIT Madras, DJ Academy of Design, Raffles Design International, Mumbai. The institutes are offering a new subject called transportation or automobile designing. These subjects are now being offered in either undergraduate or postgraduate industrial design programmes.

Who is recruiting?

Just imagine you could be associated with the world’s most well known cars if recruited. But how is it possible? Some of the companies which are recruiting are Renault India, Fiat, Bajaj Auto, Tata Motors, General Motors, Toyota and our Indian SUV maker Mahindra and Mahindra. Even the first car manufacturer of the world, Ford has hired freshers from these colleges in various capacities like interns or trainees. India’s famed car designer Dilip Chabbria will be opening his DC School of Design in Pune from 2009.

Talking about the career opportunities in car designing, Mr. Chabbria said “As the per capita income of people rise, so will their disposable income. Global auto majors are looking at these opportunities to expand their operation in India and China. Obviously the demand for designers will rise with their operations.” Industry experts project the growth of Indian automobile industry to a size of $ 150 billion over the next seven years. Currently, the automobile sector worth Rs $35 billion, and the estimated growth is stupendous. In this process as many as 25 million jobs are likely to be created. So, car designers will become an essential part of the car companies in future.

As of now the combined force of all institutes generate only about 300 auto designers. This has created paucity of designers. The cost of designing courses start from Rs 1.25 lakh per annum in other institutes, but in Dilip Chabbria’s Institute it will cost from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh a year. In order to cater to the growing demand of car designers, Mr. Chaabbria has planned to induct 1500 students into these courses.

Cars have always been a fascination for youngster. Many Indian youth have dreamt for getting into car designing but had no promising job opportunities so far. But as the car industry takes a new shape, many youngsters can take up profession of designing global cars in near future.

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