IIT's to keep the Placement record details secret from this year onwards

Updated on: Wednesday, December 09, 2015

iit While IITs are a buzz with placement news with students getting fat pay packages, the institute has decided not to reveal any pay package figures, this placement season onward, following complaints of peer and parental pressures on students.

"Disclosing salaries puts unnecessary pressure on students. It kick-starts peer pressure as well as parental and societal pressure. People forget that only very few of them actually get those fat pay packages of over a crore. The minimum and average salaries are much less," Professor Sudhirkumar Barai, Chairman, Career Development Centre at IIT Kharagpur, told PTI.

The decision was taken by the institutes at a meeting of All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC) in Guwahati. "We had this rule of non-disclosure earlier also but this time we took a conscious decision to implement it," Barai said.

The first phase of placements began at the IITs from December 1, and for the first time packages of students are being kept a secret. "We have noticed that only the highest salary is discussed. But people forget that the average salary which an IITian gets is far less than the fattest one," Barai said. The confidentiality clause in the job contract also restricts the institute to talk about the offers being made to students during placements. Some multinationals will complain to us if we disclose the figures and breach the confidentiality clause, the placement in-charge of IIT-Kgp said.

In some cases, security and safety of the pass-outs and their families could be another cause of concern as they might even get kidnapped for a ransom, he feared. All the figures from any IITs being discussed in the media this season is unauthenticated as none of the premier engineering institute can disclose figures, Barai said.

Recently an IIT-Kgp student had disclosed directly before the media that he bagged an annual package of Rs 2 crore from Google after finishing internship. "We can't stop students from making any disclosures on their own," the IIT official said. There are 16 IITs in the country.

IIT's to keep the Placement record details secret from this year onwards

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