Covid notwithstanding, IIT-Patna girl bags Rs 54 lakh job

PATNA: Diksha Bansal, a final-year computer science graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology-Patna (IIT-P), has bagged a job at Google with an annual package of Rs 54.57 lakh. This is the highest package any student received during the 2020-2021 campus placement drive that concluded recently.
Diksha, a native of Hisar in Haryana, went through various rounds of online tests and interviews before she hit the jackpot. Another final-year MTech student, Karanjeet Singh Gill from the department of computer science and engineering, got a job offer from MTX Group and an annual package of Rs 52.5 lakh. He hails from Punjab.
IIT-P’s training and placement officer, Kripa Shankar Singh, told this newspaper on Tuesday that despite the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic had hit the job market, the IIT-P welcomed 50 new recruiters for the 2020-2021 placement season.
“Altogether 140 BTech and 45 MTech students of the institute have received job offers from multinationals amid the pandemic. Some of them have been offered packages worth Rs 54.57 lakh, Rs 52.5 lakh, Rs 47 lakh and Rs 43.5 lakh per annum,” Singh added.
Covid notwithstanding, IIT-P witnessed an increase in the pay packages offered to its students during this year’s placement drive. The average salary of BTech candidates went up from Rs 14.17 lakh per annum last year to Rs 16.17 lakh in 2020-2021 and that of MTech students increased from Rs 12.11 lakh per annum to Rs 15.5 lakh.
Singh said, “More companies have shown interest in recruiting the students of the 2020-2021 batch.”