Apart from the monsoon, rains jobs also are raining at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, at this year’s campus placement session.
About 80 per cent of the students have already bagged plum jobs in top-notch firms in the ongoing campus recruitment drive for the 2013 passing out batch. With another one month left for the placement season the companies are making a beeline to recruit students from various streams of engineering. The batch-size comprises 600-strong students of BTech and Masters in Computer Application (MCA).
last week, Indian Oil Corporation limited (IOCl) creamed off eight students offering the highest salary package so far of Rs 10.5 lakh per annum. The PSU recruited four students from mechanical engineering stream, and two each from electronics and electrical engineering. Another oil major Hindustan Petroleum Corporation limited ( HPCl) which participated in the recruitment process earlier took away three students offering the second highest annual salary package of Rs 10.20 lakh. It recruited two students from civil engineering and one student from electronics engineering. Computer firm, Trident took four students offering an annual salary of Rs 9.5 lakh.
The highest recruiting company was software giant, Infosys which took away 48 students while IBM recruited 29 students. Infosys offered an annual salary of Rs 3.25 lakh excluding perks and other emoluments while IBM offered a package of Rs 3.75 lakh. Aricent picked up 27 students offering an annual salary of Rs 3.5 lakh.
Officials of the training and placement cell of the tech cradle informed that so far around 80 companies have participated in the campus recruitment process. Some of the other companies which recruited students included Tata Steel, Samsung, Maruti Suzuki, Tata Power, Hyundai, Goderej, Tata Motors, Vedanta etc.,
NIT training and placement professor in-charge Rajiv Bhushan noted that more than 80 per cent of our students have been placed till now. The quality of teaching at the institute has improved which has led to so many companies coming in for the placement sessions in the past few year.” Many more companies are lined up for the placement session but the NIT authorities have refused to divulge their names.
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.