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APRIL 16, 2025

IITs, NITs witness low placement numbers

Apr 16, 2025

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On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, the Congress party raised the concern of ‘stagnation’ of job markets, claiming that there has been a decline in the placements in elite institutions including NITs, IITs

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 As per the Congress general secretary, Jairam Ramesh, the available data indicates that one-fifth of the students in elite institutions are not getting placed

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The 364th report in the Parliamentary Standing Committee reveals a declining trend in placements at several top institutions including IITs, NITs, and IIITs

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Citing trends, he claimed that between 2021-22 and 2023-24, 22 out of 23 IITs recorded a decline in placements while the drop was over 20 percentage points at 15 IITs

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He also claimed that in 2021-22, 90.43% of BTech students from IITs who appeared for placements were placed. However, the percentage dropped to 80.25% in 2023-24

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23 out of 25 IITs observed a drop in placements in 2023-24 when compared to 2021-22. Out of this, 16 IITs saw a decline of over 10 percentage points, he stated

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The Congress leader claimed that between 2022-23 and 2023-24, 27 of the 21 NITs witnessed a fall in average salary packages offered to engineering graduates

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 He asserts that the crisis is not only affecting the informal sector or rural population, but also the top institutions in the country

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