Communication skills are one of the broad skills that are believed to be important among engineers today. The students’ graduating from Polytechnic colleges lack the modern talents and skills that set the eligibility for creating for recruitment in corporate companies. The students coming out with matriculation, in general, are not exposed to various nuances of English language and its utility. The English teachers of polytechnic college have a great responsibility of imparting communication and soft skills in students. The real pathetic condition prevailing in our country is that the teacher is indifferent to this and delightful in completing the syllabus and making the student score good grades in their end semester examination. Developing communication skills of the students are conveniently ignored. This paper attempts to investigate the present system and find out the possible avenues to develop the common skills especially communications skills among polytechnic students.