Highest package touches Rs 6.5 lakhs mark
Hardly into Day 3 of its final placements, the Faculty of Public Planning and Policy (FPPP) at the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University seem to have got off to a rollicking start with 43 companies visiting its campus. So far in the first cluster that began on February 20, FPPP, which spans seven disciplines, has seen 40 odd offers trickling in, with the largest package being pegged at Rs 6.5 lakhs.
What's more, the Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) doled out jobs to as many as six students while both Directorate of Urban Land Transport, Karnataka (DULT) and Ahmedabad-based Sai Consultancy hired three students, each. Post the economic meltdown last year CEPT saw only about 35 companies coming down to placements while this year of the 120 companies that were approached, 43 companies have come in for placements for the batch of 132 students of the faculty of planning.
While the first cluster that is supposed to go on till February 28, the second round is expected to begin in March first week even as recruitments go on till April.
CEPT has also seen multinational architecture design firms like W S Atkins, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Knight Frank, Feedback Ventures, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), Space Matrix, Mott MacDonald vying for talent from the campus along with the usual recruiters that include Jones Lang LaSalle India, PropEquity and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Placement Chairperson, Shashwat Bandopadhyay informed, "We have one of the largest batch size when it come to planning since it spans seven disciplines. So our process is stretched out in clusters till April. From what we have seen of this year regional development authorities are gung-ho about recruiting out students this time round, while a third sector that is coming up is that of rural technology."
Talking about sectors, Bandopadhyay said, "There is a slump in the realty sector this time round where as we just have had around 4 to 5 companies whereas till last year a chunk of recruiters would be from the realty sector. We see a lot of jobs trickling in from the NGO sector and development alternatives bodies and government bodies. As of now the average range of salaries are between Rs 3.5 to 6 lakhs per annum."