Piyush Golani has found a pot of gold at the end of the placement rainbow. This National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur (NIT) student of computer science & engineering has bagged the highest placement offer in the history of the institution.
Works Applications, a Tokyo-based company, has offered him a fixed salary of 5 million yen, which translates to Rs 32.87 lakh per annum. Piyush will be placed in Singapore and get additional performance bonus and other benefits.
NIT professor in charge of training, placement and media relations Dr Rajiv Bhushan said 259 job offers had been made so far. He said students were upbeat with this spectacular start to placement season.
On September 17, Tata Consultancy Services recruited 111 students at an annual package of Rs 3.50 lakh (MTech and MCA) and Rs 3.20 lakh (BTech). This is the largest number of students selected by a single company from NIT, after Infosys recruited 78 in 2011-12.
Samsung Research Institute took in 27 students — 26 from computer science and one MCA — at Rs 7.75 lakh per annum. l&T Construction offered jobs to 20 — including a dozen civil engineers, six electrical engineers and a couple of mechanical engineers. Its package was Rs 3.77 lakh.
NIT director Prof Ram Babu Kodali is personally supervising placements through which the institute has attained one milestone after another.