India, May 17 -- Students generally attend lectures to get the theory right. But then there are some who will not just sit in but get down to doing things.

Rakhi Pal wanted to get into IIT-Bombay, Delhi or Madras, but she got into Cummins College of Engineering in Pune. As a student, she took part in hackathons that companies organised for college kids, and it was after attending several such events that she discovered that huge gap, which led to the start of her own company, BeepHire, in 2020.

How it started

Says Pal, "I observed that there was a huge gap in what we were being taught in our engineering colleges; it was a syllabus that was outdated compared to the technology that was being used in companies. And besides this hard skill...