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Communication skills are set of important employability skills. The National Employability Report of India (2011) reports that nearly 78 percent of the graduate engineers lack communication skills. As a result knowledge process outsourcing industry is able to pick up only 9 out of 100 engineers. Further, with the advent of the digital age and Industry 4.0, the communication skills of engineering students has been exerting gradually increasing influence on the need for enhanced student employability. The current study thrashes out Communication skills of Engineering graduates with special reference to active listening skills; verbal communication skills; communication building strategies; writing skills. A sample of 130 Engineering graduates from AI&ML group in a semi-urban Engineering College were chosen through Non-random Convenience Sampling. A tool comprised twenty statements developed by Srivastava Kajal (2018) was employed to evaluate communication skills with a five-point Likert Scale. The results demonstrated that a good majority of engineering graduates exhibited a significant difference in communication skills and also they cannot express their thoughts effectively in writing in English ; diffident in speaking English and hesitant in public speaking. It was suggested to enhance confidence in speaking and writing as well reading and listening. Further, professional development programmes are to be taken up along with revamping of existing English labs. Directions for future research were also portrayed.