also are unable to help the kids working parents with no time to spare impossible project subjects set by schools and colleges lack of infrastructure in colleges and more students taking up icse and cbseaffiliated schools have given birth to a now thriving projectmaking industry that will never go out of business there are internal marks allotted to the students based on their projects while there are homemakers involved in making projects for students both as a hobby and to earn money the industry is much larger with many regular ecommerce websites selling projects for every kind of student when i was doing my teacher training course many fellow students had their pro jects outsourced we have been in business for nine years and the number of students only increases every year but this year the entire thing has turned online the projects are given to students from standard vi onwards in all subjects hence outsourcing the projects becomes the only way out she said this can be a model or charts depending upon the teacher pune from a model windmill for rs 400 for a standard vi student to a microcontrollerbased patient monitoring system costing rs 20000 for a finalyear engineering student the projectmaking industry has become a moneyspinning business this leaves students at the mercy of others while parents with a computer at home or enough knowledge to source and sift through material have a distinct advantage many fall short of such skills and the entire projects assignment can seem unfathomable and intimidating alka agrawal a former teacher in an icse school said while it is expected of students to make their own projects that is hardly ever so