An anti-ragging banner on BIT, Sindri, campus on Tuesday. Picture by Gautam Dey

Dhanbad, July 27: The placement season at BIT, Sindri, began on a positive note today as three students cleared a marathon screening and landed plum jobs with core sector firm Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (Jusco).

An HR team from Tata subsidiary Jusco arrived on the campus at 3pm and handpicked Rahul Pushkar and Sourav Kumar Jha of mechanical engineering and Arun Kumar Roy of electrical engineering after more than 10 hours of counselling, which included an aptitude test, a GD (group discussion) and an interview.

According to BIT, Sindri, training and placement in-charge Girijesh Kumar, 20 students from 10 departments, including electrical, mechanical, metallurgical, chemical, civil, electronics and IT, appeared for the Jusco screening. However, Rahul, Sourav and Arun cracked the test. The trio has been offered a package of Rs 5.76 lakh each.

A beaming Rahul told The Telegraph that his achievement was special as it was the season’s first campus interview. “The placement scene has greatly improved here over the past three-four years. I am very glad to have bagged such an attractive package,” he said.

While Jusco has already made its foray, other companies like Vedanta and Nasscom are likely to come to campus to screen 400-odd candidates. The latter has, in fact, sent a letter to the institute, saying it will handpick students only after their final semester in December.

Last year, 468 students had bagged jobs with top-notch companies, including software major Infosys, which had skimmed off 81. Jusco, like this year, had selected only three.

In another development, 690 students have been allotted seats in the 10 BTech branches of the institute during counselling held earlier this month. As the admission process began yesterday, the institute is taking foolproof measures to prevent ragging.

Director S.K. Singh said a special team of teachers had been constituted to monitor admissions. “It will be headed by Kumar, who is also the general warden,” Singh said, adding that another team of of hostel superintendents and teachers would be constituted to keep tab on campus bullies once the new session started on August 2. “The team will monitor strategic locations near hostels and classrooms.”

Besides, posters and banners admonishing ragging as a punishable act have been put up across the campus.