New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- An Indian-origin CEO has raised concerns over the education system in India after more than 1,200 candidates applied for two internship positions.

Srinath Mallikarjunan, CEO and Chief Scientist at Unmanned Dynamics, highlighted the employment and education crisis in a post on LinkedIn.

The post read, "I think India has a huge employment and employability crisis that main stream media is afraid to talk about. Our Indian office had an opening for 2 interns and there were 1200 applicants."

Out of the 1200 applicants, 20 candidates were shortlisted for further evaluation.

He further listed the issues of "India's broken education system".

The problems of the education system are:

1) Most IIT students stop studying a...