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Job-offer letters distributed to varsity students

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, APRIL 27 . Students of Madurai have started enjoying the advantages offered by the top-notch institutions such as placement in multi-national firms.

In the campus recruitment for the 2003-04 batch students of the Madurai Kamaraj University held at different points this academic year, software majors have hired students with salaries ranging from Rs.2.4 lakhs to Rs.3 lakhs a year.

The Vice-Chancellor, P. K. Ponnuswamy, has described it as an indication of a strong scope for industry-university linkage.

Forty-three students of Master of Computer Applications (MCA), four M.Sc. students and eight of other departments, including chemistry and physics, have been recruited by leading firms such as IBM Global Services, Bangalore, HCL Technologies, Chennai, I-flex Solutions, Bangalore, Hexaware Technologies, Chennai, Verizon (India) and Accenture Services, Bangalore. Representatives of these firms visited the university on different dates, with the latest to knock at the MKU door being Integra Software Services, Pondicherry, whose clients include such leading publishers as Macmillan.

Distributing the job offer letters to the students on the `placement day' organised by the Computer Centre of the university recently, Prof. Ponnuswamy said the IT sector worldwide was expected to recruit 2.2 million software professionals by 2008, of whom one-fifth would be from India.

The Dean of Academic Affairs, R. Murugesan, outlined the efforts needed for good placements. Each company had taken in at least three candidates, with the IBM recruiting eight students at a per-annum salary of Rs.2.5 lakhs each. Some non-IT students were recruited as project trainees, and they would be absorbed as permanent employees later.

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