IIT AND KOTA

This is a piece from the speech of Pawan Goenka, the Head of Automotive & Farm Equipment sector of M&M, as was addressing students who graduated from IIT Madras this year- Knowledge and talent to create accessible technology will lead to shared value resulting in affordable, sustainable, and inclusive growth, said Goenka, the Executive Director and President of Automotive & Farm Equipment Sectors from Mahindra & Mahindra. He recently has been appointed the Chairman of Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M). In his address at the IIT Madras convocation today, Goenka said- “Use your knowledge and talent to create accessible technology will lead to shared value resulting in affordable, sustainable, and inclusive growth. This will enrich both you (addressing the students) and your country and perhaps the World too”. On last Friday, 1630 students graduated from IIT Madras, which is one of the oldest IITs in the country. Goenka

Few years back package of 7-8 lakhs per annum was considered as very high, but now it seems very normal. If you have talent, all big companies are ready to pay you high pay packages. These day many big companies are visiting Non-IITs also in search of talent and if students from these institutes have skills they are willing to offer high pay packages to these students also. Recently Google offered 1.44 crore package to Andhra pradesh private engineering college student.  Below there is list of few companies, who offers high pay packages to students:- Google – Offered 1.44 crore package in 2014 Microsoft – Offered 79 lakhs package to students in 2014 Goldman Sachs – Offered 35 lakhs package to students in 2014 eBay – Offered 17 lakhs package in 2014 Flipkart – Offered 15 lakhs packages in 2014

On the Foundation Day of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (IIT-P), Patna University Vice-Chancellor YC Simhadri said that IAS officers are over-hyped. Indian Administrative Services officers are merely clerks in a government office meant to implement government schemes. Civil Services Examinations too are similar to undergraduate examinations conducted by colleges.  Delivering a lecture at Nebula – the Fresher’s Day programme of IIT-P, Simhadri said that IITs at better at testing students’ caliber and picking up the best of the lot. He said, “IITs are a brand. An IITian is considered a valuable human resource across the world.” At a time when UPSC CSAT controversy is at its peak and IAS aspirants are protesting against CSAT for being biased towards urban students from English-medium schools, Simhadri said, “IAS examinations are not that great. People who fail it thrice in a row somehow manage to pass through it in the fourth year to become IAS and work as clerks in g

IIT Bombay. Arpit Agarwal, IIT Bombay answers: This is all based on what I have heard from my friends and colleagues in other IITs, which might be factually incorrect at places (do correct me in that case). 1)  Campus Location  -  The lush green campus with lakes and hills, is a store-house of flora and fauna isolates the inmates from the highly polluted environment of a metropolitan city like Mumbai, yet, if you ever wish to go out and have fun, you are in one of the better patch of Mumbai i.e. Powai, with Hiranandani  (a place which has pretty much everything you can think of : food, market, booze, chicks, everything) a foot away. So, you are very much inside Mumbai (City that never sleeps), yet isolated from it. Indeed, IIT Bombay in itself is a city of its own. Pic: view of Hiranandani from IIT Bombay     2)  Academics  -  Without a second thought, in academics, IIT Bombay is at the top in India with statistics supporting it.’ 3)  Extra-Curricular A