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Record Placement at BIT Sindri # Hindustan Times,
25 December 2006
HT Correspondent
Sindri, December 24
When Raniganj (West
Bengal) based mining company Maheshwari Mining and software firm Jessof
short-listed eight and two students respectively for their various
operations, little did they now they are helping BIT Sindri create a
landmark.
With 250 placements in
2006 alone, the engineering institute achieved its highest placement
figures ever since it was established over 50 years ago. However, it is
not the large placements that are turning competitors green with envy.
The attractive salary packages that BIT Sindri graduates have been able
to attract is also making quite a few of the institute's competitors
envious.
Drawing attention to the
salary component that the institute's students have been offered by the
companies that selected them, Prof-in-Charge, Training and Placement, at
BIT Sindri, Dr.G.Kumar, affirmed that salary packages of over Rs.2 lakh
per annum had been offered by quite a few companies that came
headhunting here. "Several of the core sector companies that had
come in early had offered salary packages of over Rs.4 lakh a year. This
was in addition to the other perks such as free lodging and
transportation", he said. The most attractive package of the year
however, was of the Jamshedpur based utility services company JUSCO. The
company had offered a yearly salary of Rs.5.5 lakh. Automobile giants
Tata Motors came in the next with its offer of Rs.4.8 lakh a year, while
Vedanta and Hindalco had a going offer of Rs.3.5 and Rs.3.8 lakh per
annum.
Software major Infosys
that was allotted the first slot by the institute also offered those it
had selected a salary package of Rs.2.7 lakh a year. Meanwhile divulging
details of the recent placements, Kumar said that the Maheshwari Mining
had picked up six mining students and two civil engineering students.
And Jessof offered a salary package of Rs.2.5 lakh a year to two
mechanical students.
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