IITs blacklist 31 companies from campus placements

NEW DELHI: The panel responsible for campus hiring across all the IITs in the country has blacklisted 31 companies and banned them from recruiting students for a year after a flurry of complaints against them.

The All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC) drew up the blacklist on August 14, but the names were released after IITBombay revealed on Thursday nine of these companies that were banned from campus recruitments. Most of these firms are startups.

The convener of the committee, Prof Kaustubha Mohanty, said the exercise is a precautionary measure taken in the interest of students in all the 23 IITs. “We decided that when we ask a particular company to register with us, we will try to ask for data on their sources of funding, statement of accounts, balance sheet, and number of employees. We used to ask for a lot of details earlier too, but not so stringently,” he said.

The banned companies will have to go through intense scrutiny before they are allowed to recruit students after the oneyear embargo gets over.