5 Years On, New IITs Still Struggle to Match the Biggies

In the words of A K Bakhtavatsalam, placement in-charge at NIT, Trichy, "Last year, 96 percent of our students in B.Tech got placed and the minimum annual package a student got was 4 lakh". On the other hand, students of the new IITs are forced to accept offers which are way below this range. And with an exception of IIT-Gandhinagar and IIT-Bhubaneshwar, which saw about 91 and 92 percent placements the previous year, none of the other new IITs managed to break the 90 percent placement barrier.

Nirmala Menon, faculty and media coordinator at IIT-Indore exclaimed that, "The salary packages being offered are not very encouraging but we managed to get 100 out of 118 students placed. Of the remaining 18, many preferred to go for higher studies and two chose to continue their studies at IIT-Indore itself".   

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