Placement high

Jamshedpur, July 20: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, is going gaga over the ongoing campus recruitment with around 80 students getting offers from big names in just four days.

This is for the first time that so many students have got jobs in such a short period. And if the phrase ?morning shows the day? holds true, the institute will have a lot to cheer about in the days to come.

Seventy-two students from various engineering streams bagged jobs with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Accenture ? the first two companies to participate in this year?s placement.

While TCS selected 49 students offering an annual package of Rs 2.36 lakh, Accenture picked up 23 aspirants ? 21 from B.Tech and two from Masters in Computer Application.

This year?s batch of hopefuls includes 240 students from various streams, including electronics, electrical, mechanical, civil, metallurgy, production and computer science.

Sources in the training and placement cell of the engineering college informed that Tata Steel, which hired six students yesterday, has offered the highest pay of Rs 4.48 lakh, excluding other benefits and perks, so far.

Senior officials of automobile major Ashok Leyland visited the campus today and picked two students each from the mechanical and production engineering streams. The company offered Rs 2.4 lakh as annual pay.

Last year, the institute had registered 100 per cent campus placement. The drive will continue till early next year.

So far, around 25 companies have confirmed participation in the placement, some of them being TVS Motors, Computer Science Corporation, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Tata Motors and Defence Research and Development Organisation.

Training and placement officer of the institute N.K. Narayan expressed optimism that the institute would have full placement this year too.

?The campus recruitment programme has kicked off with a positive note. We look forward to 100 per cent placement this year. Moreover, the companies are coming up with better pay packages for the the graduates,? he said, adding that besides the traditional favourites, some new software companies have also evinced interest this time.