Dhanbad, June 3: It’s raining jobs at BIT, Sindri, this year as recruiters have started making a beeline for the institute.

With 10 more students being selected by Electrosteel Castings Limited yesterday, BIT’s campus placement figures have crossed last year’s 406 recruitments to reach 432 this year so far.

The tech cradle has managed to come up with such a startling figure at a time when the ghost of the downturn is still haunting major software companies like IBM, Patni Computers and Satyam and keeping them from visiting the campuses for recruitment.

G. Kumar, in charge of training and placement at the institute, said: “I am confident of breaking our own record of 450 placements in 2008. More than a half a dozen companies are yet to visit our campus for recruitment.”

Two other recruiters — Kriton Synergy and Tata Wire and Steel Products that conducted interviews of 16 and 26 students, respectively, on March 23 — selected one and five candidates each.

Till now, Infosys has offered jobs to 82 students while TCS has selected 43 techies.

And, most job offers were lucrative, too. So far, the highest pay package offered by an Indian company is Rs 6.29 lakh. Indonesian company Gati International, which visited the campus for the first time, picked up two students at a monthly salary of $1,500 (Rs 69,567).

Though companies started coming a little late this year, 31 firms have visited the institute so far. “Unlike last year when recruiters started pouring in the campus during the seventh semester, many companies came after the completion of the final semester exam,” said Kumar.