UIET, UBS students safe, others face heat

CHANDIGARH

CHANDIGARH : The slowdown has not impacted job offers for students of Panjab University but it has affected the prospects of Punjab Engineering College passouts.

No offer has been revoked by any company for students of University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) and University Business School (UBS). According to the placement data, 103 of the 129 students who applied have been placed from UBS this year. Manoj Bobhariya,

the student placement coordinator at UBS, said, “No company has revoked any job offer.” At PU’S University Institute of Engineering and Technology, 300 students were placed. Sarbjeet Singh, placement officer at UIET, said, “This year, however, we could not conduct the placement drives for students who were not selected.”

But the story is different at Punjab Engineering College (PEC) and Chandigarh University. Job offers of six PEC students were revoked by United Airlines, while two companies withdrew offers of five students at Chandigarh

University during the lockdown. Himani Sood, director, placements, at Chandigarh University, said, “After the job offers of five students were revoked, we managed to get them placed in other companies.”at Chitkara University, no job offers of students have been revoked but internship programmes have been affected. More than 150 students were placed this year at Goswami Ganesh Dutta SD College in Sector 32, Chandigarh. “We are back on track. Online interviews are being conducted,” said placement officer Kapil Dev.