Berhampur institutes shine during recruitment drive

BERHAMPUR: Technical and management institutes in Berhampur have seen an encouraging trend during this year's campus recruitment drive by private companies. Presidency College, a private B-school, has declared cent per cent placement of final year students of the post graduate diploma in management (PGDM) course. As many as 230 of the 350 students in the government-run Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) have got placement in a automobile manufacturing company, principal RK Panigrahi said. The students were recruited by Tata Motors for its Panthanagar unit, where the Nano is manufactured. The students of fitter, welder, motor mechanic, automobiles, and painter departments were recruited by the company as trainee operators. Each selected student will be receive a monthly stipend of Rs 6660 during the training period. Similarly, Ronald Institute of Technology (RIT), a private degree engineering college in the town, claimed that about 114 students were recruited by 24 different companies. The institute hopes to cross 200 mark during the placement drive in the next two months. Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Science has tied up with a Hyderabad-based biotech company, Nitza Biologicals (Pvt) limited, to conduct campus placement for its students. Almost all pharmaceutical science students in the institute have already got job offers in various drug and biological firms across the country, claimed institute director J Surya Rao. M Choudhury, placement co-ordinator of Presidency College, said the recruitment drive started from the first week of March. The process began with pre-placement training by experts for three weeks before the campus selection conducted by different companies. The students of other institutes such as Sanjay Memorial Institute of Technology (SMIT), Kalinga Institute of Technology (KIT) and Berhampur University also participated in the recruitment process, she added. 

Source: Times of India, http://www.roland.ac.in/