No withdrawal of campus offers, say top state institutes

Gaurav Pandey | Updated: Apr 26, 2020, 14:58 IST

RANCHI: None of the recruiters who had offered jobs to students pursuing various professional courses from premier institutes across the state have revoked the appointments even amid the growing uncertainty within companies in view of the Covid-19 outbreak.
TOI contacted all premier institutes of the state that offer various professional courses in engineering, management, law, mining and other fields and all of them said no recruiter has withdrawn any offer made to their students. However, the institutes added that the extended placement season during the summers has been affected due to the lockdown and they are hoping the companies will return to the campus once things normalize.
Director of IIM Ranchi, Shailendra Singh, said placements at his institution are divided into two parts. The first one takes place between October and November, when students go for internship programmes, and the second one between June and February after the trainings are over. “We had 100% placement this year as all 248 students of 2018-20 batch recieved offers by February. None of the offers have been withdrawn,” Singh said.
More than 80% students of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, have recieved job offers and no appointment was revoked. “As much as 73% engineering and 80% MBA graduates have been recruited. We had a recruitment session scheduled in April and May, but that has been cancelled due to the lockdown,” said Utpal Paul, dean of placement cell at BIT Mesra. He added that no company has cancelled future recruitment drives.
Professor in-charge of placements at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Satish Sinha, said, “There has been no adverse effect on placements as the session for the last academic session ended in February and the session for 2020-21 will start in November-December. More than 700 students of the institute succeeded in getting campus placements and nearly 150 are already pursuing internships either from their homes or at the institute.”
Sinha said, “A few companies had withdrawn the offers, but as soon as we were informed about it, we reached out to the 95 firms that had offered placements to our students and persuaded them to change their decision in the larger interest of the students.”
In Jamshedpur, Xavier School of Management-XLRI, 108 recruiters made more than 362 domestic and international offers to the students. The institute said, “In addition to our fixed recruiters, 24 new companies participated in the campus placements in January and none of the offers have been withdrawn.”
National University for Study and Research in Law, Kanke, also confirmed that their placement session ended in December and the students are set to join after June. “I do not have the exact figures as many students attend interviews on Skype and their data is yet to be collected. However, none of the offers made to out students till December has been withdrawn,” said S K Sinha, public relations officer of NUSRL.
(With inputs from Anil Ashutosh in Dhanbad and B Sridhar in Jamshedpur)