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BPUT favours campus selection for 7th semester students only

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‘Recruitment drive was causing a lot of distraction among students’

BHUBANSWAR: It’s raining jobs for engineering students whereas authorities are worried in Orissa.

Though it sounds odd but Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) has set the ball rolling to prevent companies from picking up students in the early years of their studies.

“We are seeking consensus among all the engineering colleges and private universities to start the campus recruitment drive only after seventh semester examination,” BPUT Vice Chancellor Omkar Nath Mohanty said here on Sunday. The recruitment drive, which was beginning just after fifth semester examination, was causing a lot of distraction among students, Mr. Mohanty said.

Agreed B. N. Biswal, principal of College of Engineering Bhubaneswar.

“We have noticed that students who get selected by companies after fifth semester examination generally don’t pursue their studies with seriousness,” Mr. Biswal said. The other group of students, who were left out in initial recruitment drive, got depressed, he said.

Among left-out group, while some students become more determined to do well in the next examinations, another group of students make themselves ill-disciplined causing botheration for their parents.

“In IITs, campus placement often takes place after seventh semester so that students complete their studies without any distractions,” Mr. Mohanty said.

The BPUT Vice Chancellor said “I have written to vice-chancellors and principals of engineering colleges to come to an agreement over the issue. We have also on our part got in touch with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and other industry bodies to think on this aspect.”

Collective decision

He further said one institution or one university could not decide that it did not want campus recruitment after fifth semester.

“It has to be a collective decision. Suppose one institution decides to allow companies to pick students after seventh semester, there are chances that other colleges would take advantage of the situation,” Mr. Mohanty said.

Of late, software companies are scouting talents across all engineering colleges and sometimes hand over appointment letters before students complete their studies.

The private engineering colleges capitalise on the size of recruitments in their campus and latter publicise it to attract students.

In the cutthroat competition, decision to hold back oneself from not allowing companies to pick up students from its campus appears to be a tough one.

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