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124 qualify for Wipro programme

R. Krishnamoorthy

Poor communicative skill remains a bane

IN ANTICIPATION: Students looking for their names in the list of successful candidates in Tiruchi on Sunday. — Photo: R. Ashok.

TIRUCHI: As many as 124 students pursuing final-year undergraduation in arts and science colleges qualified for a Wipro Academy School of Excellence (WASE) programme on Sunday at the end of a two-day job fair the company conducted at the Cauvery College for Women here.

Absorbing the successful candidates as Programmer Trainees, the company, while offering them projects, would also fund their two-year weekend M.S. programme offered by BITS, Pilani, and impart them specialised training for another couple of years before appointing them as Programmers. For the four years their progressive stipend will be Rs. 9,000, Rs. 12,000, Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 18,000 respectively.

Of the 1,318 BCA, and B.Sc. Computer Science, Physics, and Statistics students from 30 colleges who attended the fair, 529 were cleared after the aptitude test. In the technical and HR interviews that followed, 124 candidates succeeded. Poor communicative skills was the bane for several otherwise prospective students, said T.N. Ravi, Placement Officer and Head, Department of Computer Science, Cauvery College for Women.

Turnout good

Nevertheless, the company was impressed by the turnout. Though the college had invited only 16 colleges in and around Tiruchi, there were students from other colleges in Chennai, Dindigul, Karur, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Perambalur as well, college sources said.

Significantly, the company could recruit 124 candidates against its target of roping in 4,000 students from various parts of the country under its WASE programme, at Tiruchi itself.

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