IITs report 30-35% unemployment despite new recruitment drive
Mumbai: Despite India's technology industries launching a new round of recruitment in January, 30-35% of students from the country's premier educational institutes, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), remain without jobs.
The pace of recruitment has also slowed compared to the previous year. Most campuses are allowing companies to register afresh to hire talent.
To address this, some IITs have intensified efforts to attract companies to campus for hiring. Others have extended their second-phase placement drives until June or July.
Additionally, efforts are underway to reach out to companies that registered for the first round of recruitment but did not participate in campus interviews.
"Recession is a global phenomenon, impacting IT industry recruitment worldwide. Over 100 students have now been placed in the second phase, which will continue until June," sources at IIT Bombay reported.
The Powai campus expects to recruit 33% of B.Tech, Master's, and doctoral degree students. This mirrors the situation during the first phase of placements last year. Out of 2,400 registered candidates, 1,970 appeared for tests and interviews, with 1,300 securing jobs by the end of March.
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Women BJP MLAs protest against opposition in UP assembly premises
Lucknow (PTI): Women BJP MLAs held a protest in the Vidhan Bhawan complex before the one-day special session of Uttar Pradesh assembly, slamming the opposition for defeating the passage of a bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Law, in the Lok Sabha.
This followed another demonstration by Samajwadi Party MLAs, who alleged that the BJP was misleading public in the name of women's reservation.
The women BJP legislators assembled in front of Chaudhary Charan Singh's statue in the assembly premises, holding banners inscribed with the slogan "Insult to Matrushakti (women's power), India will not tolerate it". The protesting members entered the main hall of Vidhan Bhawan carrying the banners.
Participating in the protest, the state Minister for Women Welfare and Child Development, Baby Rani Maurya, told reporters that all opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, had opposed the women's reservation, a stance for which they would have to pay a heavy political price.
"On this issue, all of us women stand united. We will ensure that we secure our reservation," she said.
BJP MLA Ketki Singh remarked that their protest represents the collective outrage of millions of women across the state.
Singh asserted that the opposition has betrayed women by creating hurdles in the path of women's reservation. The current demonstration is merely the beginning, and very soon, women from every street, intersection and household will join the protest movement, she said.
Minister Vijaylakshmi Gautam said, "We strongly condemn the despicable act committed by the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in an attempt to hold back 'half the population' (women). Their action was directed against the very bill that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced to empower and strengthen Nari Shakti (women's power), and which he strived to pass expeditiously."
Uttar Pradesh assembly is holding a one-day special session on Thursday. During the session, the government is set to move a censure motion against the opposition parties over their failure to pass the Constitution Amendment Bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Act, in the Lok Sabha.
