No job offer annulled since lockdown: IIT, NIT-Patna

Amid the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19, top technical institutions of Patna such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT) have informed that no recruiter has annulled the job offers. For the final year BTech students, the premier institutes are still conducting the placement drive through online modes. IIT-Patna has already conducted a placement and internship drive with five different companies since the lockdown. However, five more companies are going to hold online tests, web interviews and group interviews over phone. According to Meghna, professor-in-charge public relations of IIT-Patna, since the beginning of the lockdown, they had conducted placement and internship activities for five different companies through online tests and interviews.

They had got support from a number of recruiters who reinstated that they would uphold their offers and their relationship with the institute in the testing times. According to Samrat Mukherjee, professor-in-charge of placement cell at NIT-Patna, one multinational company had finished the recruitment process during the lockdown. The results are yet to be announced. Once the company releases the list of selected candidates, they would know how many students got the job offers.

Apart from this, the NIT Patna has sent the database of BTech fourth year electronic engineering students to a Delhi-based core electronic company. As per Mukherjee, the company would hold telephonic interviews. However, three companies withheld the hiring process on account of the lockdown. But they have assured to resume the process once the situation gets better. Almost 85 per cent of the IIT-Patna BTech students got job letters while the NIT-P has recorded 93.9 per cent placement of its BTech students.

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