Odisha govt plans placement camp for MBA, MCA, engineering students

State dept arranges at least 300 companies to take part in the placement process

The state government today announced to conduct a ‘special recruitment drive’ in September to provide jobs for passed out students of MBA, MCA, pharmacy and engineering students in collaboration with private companies.

The Employment,Technical Education and Training (ET&T) department of Odisha government has been entrusted with the task of organising a four-day camp at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar starting from September 17. “The government has formed a committee under the chairmanship of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) vice-chancellor to finalise the modalities for the recruitment drive. The other members of the committee will be officials overseeing Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) and Directorate of Technical Education and Training (DTET),” said Sanjay Dasburma, minister for civil supplies and technical education.

To participate in the recruitment drive, interested students will have to register with the department via online. The registration process is expected to start within seven days with the help of software developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC).

“The department has arranged at least 300 companies from inside and outside the state to take part in the placement process. Separate dates has been fixed for students of different streams for the September 17-20 recruitment drive,” said a release from the state government.

The recruitment drive is applicable for unemployed students with technical education background.

“We appeal to the passed out and unemployed students of MBA, MCA, pharmacy and engineering to take part in the drive by registering themselves on the website,” said Mihir Ranjan Nayak, registrar of BPUT.

This is the first such move by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government, which has come under attack for not providing job opportunities to over a million unemployed local youths despite projecting a pro-investment attitude during its 14 years rule.

According statistics submitted by the government in the Assembly, 1,095,151 youth had registered themselves in employment exchanges of the state by March this year, out of them 1,042,826 having proper educational qualification.

Apart from slow pace of investment in the state, poor placement drive by private firms, especially from IT sector, this year, has affected recruitment process in many reputed engineering and management colleges of the state, leaving many pass-out students jobless after completion of their courses.