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BIT-Sindri: Plum placement
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The 2011-2012 placement season is going strong at BIT-Sindri with Jindal Steel picking up 34 students on Wednesday. This takes the total number of students landing up with jobs till now this year to 310.
Of the selected, 14 are from mechanical engineering department, 11 from metallurgy engineering, six from electrical engineering and three from chemical engineering. Jindal Steel also took three of the six students of Indian School of Mines (ISM), who had appeared at the selection test at BIT-Sindri. All 37 have been offered an annual package of Rs 4 lakh.
Head of the department of geology Girijesh Kumar, also the training and placement officer of the institute, said a total of 167 students — 161 from BIT-Sindri and six from ISM — had appeared for the written test. Of them, 68 — 64 from BIT-Sindri and four from ISM — made it to group discussion and interview. Finally, 37 students were selected.
Kumar added that more headhunters would queue up at the institute in the days to come. Hyderabad-based mining company Essel Mining, a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group, will conduct a recruitment drive on December 10. Students of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and mining engineering will appear for the test. Tractors manufacturing company TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited) will come calling on December 12 to hire mechanical engineering and production engineering students.
“We are expecting that this year’s placement figure will break last year’s record. As many as 535 students bagged plum jobs during the 2010-11 placement session,” Kumar said, adding that the biggest recruiter this year was Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
The IT giant lapped up 201 students — seven from mechanical engineering, 23 (electrical), 19 (production), 16 (metallurgical), 30 (chemical), 14 (civil), 33 (electronics and communication), 27 (computer science) and 32 (information technology). The package offered was Rs 3.17 lakh per annum.
This year’s highest package of Rs 7.3 lakh per annum, offered by Tata Telcon, was bagged by three students — one each from electrical, mechanical and production engineering departments.
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