Nasscom delays placements of engineering students

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 07 April 2009, 16:06 IST   |    3 Comments
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Bangalore: Campus placements in engineering colleges are likely to be delayed till the eighth semester in the wake of a circular by National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), that recommended the delay. "We have written to 1,000 odd colleges across the country. Even other industry bodies like CII and FICCI are likely to follow suit," said NASSCOM President Som Mittal. The IT body maintains the decision to be in the interest of the students by discouraging them from neglecting studies once their recruitment is assured, reports Bangalore Mirror. The recruitment process till now commenced from sixth semester and even from fifth semester in some colleges. This results in students having a job offer on hand even though they still have over one year left to complete studies, which gives them a certain degree of complacency. "It also inhibits student from taking up post-graduate studies which has its own cascading impact on the quality of research," Mittal said. The industry also agreed to the decision and they plan to implement this from the 2009-10 academic sessions onwards. The decision is welcomed by the colleges too."It is a good move. We have numerous examples where students after getting offer letters in sixth semester stop attending classes subsequently. There are also examples where they have also failed in the coming exams," said VTU registrar A Balaji. Some students also display arrogance in the campus and even the scores drop by 25 percent to 30 percent. "Students who would score 80 percent in pre-placements would score below 60. They start bunking classes and also show less respect for teachers as their jobs are secured," said Acharya College Principal Prabhu Kumar. In some colleges, following the NASSCOM suggestion, companies like TCS have not visited our campus for sixth semester students and have announced that they will come only next year.