NIT Hamirpur student gets Rs 1.5 crore salary package

Nishant Handa, a final year student of dual degree (BTech plus MTech) programme of Computer Science and Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur, has received an annual package of Rs 1.51 crore from Bloomberg, a US-based company. 

Nishant, who belongs to Gurugram, Haryana, will join the company’s headquarters at New York. Prof Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Director, NIT Hamirpur, congratulated Nishant and his parents and wished him luck in his future endeavours. He said this was for the first time in the history of the institution that such a good package had been won by a student. 

NIT Hamirpur was initially set up as Regional Engineering College (REC) in 1986, with only two departments— Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering as compared with 13 departments at present. It was in 2002, REC was given the status of the deemed university and upgraded to NIT Hamirpur. 

At present, the institute runs a variety of UG, PG and doctoral courses across streams such as engineering, architecture, sciences, humanities & social sciences and management. 

NIT Hamirpur is one of the 31 NITs across India. It also holds ‘Institute of National Importance’ status and is visited by popular recruiters such as Adobe, Accenture, Godrej, etc. The highest CTC offered during NIT Hamirpur placement 2020 was Rs 42.5 lakh per annum, which was bagged by a BTech student of the computer science and engineering branch. 

NIT Hamirpur admission process for the BTech course is through JEE Main. Candidates clearing the cut-offs are called for JoSSA counselling for seat allocation. ForBArchcourse as well, NIT Hamirpur admission process is through JEE Main. 

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