Pre-placement offers spike across IITs
With the annual placement season less than a month away, the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are looking forward to better prospects this year, especially as most of them have witnessed an increase in the number of preplacement offers (PPOs) as compared to last year.
The first phase of placement at the IITs takes place in the first two weeks of December every year. At IIT-Bombay (IIT-B), 142 PPOs were offered in 2017, of which, 100 were accepted. This year, as of October-end, 162 students have already been offered jobs, while another few offers are in the pipeline.
“Students are approached with jobs until placement officially
begins on campus. Students decide to either accept the offers or wait for something better through the official placements.
It is their choice,” said an official from the IIT-B placement cell. While students from IIT-Madras (IIT-M) received 114 PPOs in 2017, more than 130 students have already got job offers this year.
“The good number of PPOs is hopefully indicative of a strong placement season. The steady increase over the years in PPOs also points to the value placed by recruiters on the internship program,” said professor Manu Santhanam, advisor, training and placement Cell, IIT-M.
Most PPOs this year have been from sectors such as research and development, analytics, consulting and finance and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).
“Many companies tend to wait till the campus interviews to share their final offer. However, over the last few years, PPOs are a rising trend, and the number of students accepting PPOs has also increased,” said an official from the IIT-Delhi (IIT-D) placement cell.
Less than 24 hours after six-year-old tigress T1 — said to have killed 13 people since June 2016 — was shot and killed by the forest department in Yavatmal, the Maharashtra forest department said killing the tigress was only half the job done.
“We cannot say the mission is complete because we have to take care of T1’s cubs,” said Virendra Tiwari, chief conservator of forest (Mantralaya), state forest department.
“They cannot be left in the wild. But they are not to be shot, only tranquillised and this needs to be done at the earliest...”
Officials will try to tranquillise the cubs and keep them in captivity. The move has left wildlife enthusiasts furious as they are mulling moving the Supreme Court (SC) to stop any more kills in the region.
Dr Jerryl A Banait, who had approached the Supreme Court and the Bombay high court in this matter, said, “If tranquillised, they will not be able to withstand the sedative effect and succumb to injuries.” “We will take the government head on and expose the real reasons why Avni died,” said Anand Siva, activist. Both Banait and Siva alleged diversion of forest land adjacent to the forest area for industrial purposes by the forest department and local villagers demanding compensation as the reasons for killing T1.
“These claims are baseless as those protesting this have lost every legal battle and even met the chief minister but nothing happened,”said a senior forest department officer.
MANEKA SLAMS MAHA OVER KILLING OF AVNI
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday slammed the Maharashtra government over the killing of the maneater tigress Avni.
Gandhi, in a tweet, hit out at Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar saying “it is nothing but a straight case of crime” and said she will take up the matter “very strongly” with Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
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