Birsa Institute of Technology in Sindri launched its three-day admissions to 680 seats in 10 four-year BTech course at its Deshpandey Auditorium on Thursday.
Day One saw students seek entry in mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines. As many as 136 admissions against the 204 seats (105 mechanical, 99 electrical) were recorded.
Admissions in production (54 seats), metallurgy (54 seats) and chemical (91 seats) engineering, and information technology (40 seats) will take place at the same venue on the BIT campus on Friday.
Day Three on Saturday will host candidates seeking to study civil engineering (98 seats), electronics and communication engineering (52 seats), mining engineering (49 seats) and computer science engineering (38 seats).
Admissions for military quota candidates and those who fail to turn up on the three designated dates will take place on August 2 and 3.
Head of geology Girijesh Kumar, who is also the dean of academics at BIT-Sindri, said that foolproof arrangements had been made against ragging with help from members of the anti-ragging committee.
Students and guardians who arrived at the Sindri cradle from different parts of the state expressed their happiness over the good infrastructure at the institute and its sprawling campus.
Devki Mahto, an employee at the BDO office in Hazaribagh who arrived with his son Aman Kumar for admission in mechanical engineering on Thursday, said he was thrilled about his ward taking admission at BIT-Sindri. “It is the biggest institute in our region. The campus is spread over 450 acres; there are large workshops and laboratories. It is considered among the top-notch institutes of the country,” Mahto beamed.
Ranchi-based student Ashish Gupta, who is seeking admission in electrical engineering, said: “Besides, being the oldest and most reputable institute of the state, BIT-Sindri also earns the distinction of being the lone state-owned engineering institute of Jharkhand. I am glad to be here.”
Ashish further said: “We came to know recently that the government plans to provide administrative autonomy to the institute. We expect the institute to attain autonomy as soon as possible.”
Pramod Kumar Dwivedi, a Jamshedpur-based government schoolteacher, who came to Sindri with daughter Urvashi Anand, an electrical engineering aspirant, liked the fact that the BIT campus was away from the hustle-bustle of city life. “This place has the perfect ambience for studying. I hope my child makes it,” he said.
