PSUs to recruit on GATE score

Updated on: Friday, October 21, 2011

The maharatna and the navratna PSUs have decided to recruit fresh graduates from various engineering colleges based on their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score from the placement season next season. For example, the National Thermal Power Corporation, a maharatna company, has written to colleges saying they will recruit candidates based on GATE score, group discussions and the interview and asked the institutes to encourage students to appear for GATE.

The PSUs say this will make a qualitative difference in the recruitments and that it will set a standardised process, but the engineering institutes are divided. While confirming recruitments will be based on GATE score, Deepna Mehta, a spokesperson of NTPC, said: “We won’t conduct our own exams and will rely on GATE score followed by GDs and interviews. Though, for the time being, we will continue our campus visits, it will be restricted. This to encourage recruitments based on GATE score.” An HR official of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, a navratna company, said, “Setting eligibility criteria based on GATE score will ensure credibility and give qualitative impetus to the process.”

PSUs to recruit on GATE score

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