Agribusiness centre bags 100% placement

The Centre for Agribusiness Management (CAM) of the city-based Utkal University has achieved 100 per cent placement for the management students of the 2011 batch.

CAM has been maintaining cent per cent placement record since its inception in 2006 including the period of economic downturn.

"All the 60 students of the batch have been placed in banking, agri-input and agri-procurement sectors. Fifty one out of 60 students have bagged salary of over Rs three lakh per annum with the highest salary being Rs six lakh per annum and minimum salary at Rs two lakh per year”, Deepak Kumar Ram, centre head, CAM.

 

The students of CAM have been hired by nationalized banks which are opening their branches in rural areas for achieving their financial inclusion goals.

Besides nationalized banks, private banks like ICICI bank and YES bank are also providing job opportunities by recruiting students for their agriculture and rural credit divisions.

"Axis bank is the top recruiter in the private sector recruiting 10 students with average salary of Rs four lakh per annum and Bank of Baroda is the top recruiter in the public sector taking six students with an offer of Rs 5.4 lakh per annum”, said Sarita Das, faculty CAM.