The final year students of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur are on cloud nine these days. The mood at the campus is upbeat as series of companies are lined up with the job offers for the students. The placement drive has kicked off on a buoyant note. The Class of 2015 has more than 600 students studying in various disciplines of BTech, MTech and MCA.
About 431 students have received offers from varoius top companies. Two students of the tech cradle have got the highest package offers from Japan during the campus placement. Subham Satish Baldava of Computer Science & Engineering and Bharat Singh Bhandari of Electrical Engineering have bagged the highest annual package of Rs32 lakh in the campus placement.
They have been offered jobs by Works Applications of Japan as R&D Software Engineer and they would be posted in Singapore or Tokyo. Moreover, the second highest annual package of Rs21 lakh was offered by Amazon to six students of Computer Science and Engineering department. The highest number of students has been selected by TCS which has offered jobs to 164 students.
The officials of training and placement cell informed that so far around 80 companies have participated in the campus recruitment process. NIT training and placement professor in-charge Rajiv Bhushan noted that the placement drive this season has started on a positive note and most of the students have been placed till now.
“The economy in the country has improved the companies want to recruit young talent and this has helped the institute bag plum job offers,” noted the professor. Notably, NIT (erstwhile Regional Institute of Technology) is one of the eight regional engineering institutes established in the country in the year 1960. The Institute was fully taken over by the Central Government on 1st April, 2003 and renamed National Institute of Technology.