Production Engineer is responsible for the overall industrial production and management. A production engineer has a wide knowledge of engineering practices and aware of the management challenges related to production.

Scope of production engineering in India

• Manufacturing industries- For inspection, quality control, operation of automated equipments, to control assembly line, production management etc.
• Food processing industries- For inspection, quality control, Production management etc.
• Railways- Manufacturing processes and its control etc
• Space and other research organizations
• Government and private companies
• IT companies

Good Luck!

Production engineering is expected to be similar to mechanical engineering but exactly not the same. The scope is decent because the competition is not much high. 

You can expect the average package approx 3-5 lakhs again depends upon your caliber and skills.

Also if asking for Gujarat then you can limit your growth.

Admission in most of the colleges is through an entrance exam like JEE mains, BITSAT, UPESEAT and more.

Some of the colleges for this course are:

LPU

UPES

IITD

Sharda University

You can check the rest details in the link below:

All about production engineering

Hope this helps.