[Assam] Business houses eyeing candidates from NE(The Assam Tribune, 10.12.2007)

[Buljit Buragohain]

              Business houses eyeing candidates from NE
By A City Reporter
 GUWAHATI, Dec 9 – The dream of north-eastern students to work in big conglomerates has started turning into a reality. 

Whereas students of the region are getting maximum benefits and opportunities through association with the brand names, the firms too are queuing up in search of skilled and stable manpower from the region. 

“Workforce from the region and the State managed to come in the good books of the management and IT companies by dint of their commitment and a stable pattern of working in comparison to the workforce from other parts of the country,” feels Pratul Chandra Kalita, Institute Coordinator of the North East Professional Institutes Forum (NEPIF). 

The NEPIF is a joint forum of 11 premier engineering and management institutes of North East India endorsed by the institute authorities. The forum has already organized six common placement events for its member institutes, from where organisations like ICICI Bank, Genpact, Satyam, Colgate Palmolive, Kanbay (Capgemini) TCS and TVS Motors have picked up 126 of the students.

According to an estimate, the State requires raising its capacity by 17 times over the existing infrastructure in degree engineering level and five times over the existing capacity in diploma engineering level to be at par with other States of the country. However, despite this, the students from this region have managed to have a sizeable presence in the BPO sector of the country.

The companies that have planned a visit in the State in the coming days are TCS, Infosys Technologies, Infosys BPO, Wipro Technologies, First Source (Formerly known as ICICI one Source), IBM Daksh Bangalore and IBM Daksh, Gurgaon.

Recently the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recruited six students from Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Nalbari, and the next event was held on December 3 at the Department of Chemistry, Cotton College by IBM Daksh, Banglore for graduates in any discipline passing out in 2008. Infosys Technologies Limited and Infosys BPO will recruit students at the same venue it was learnt. 

“They have profiles for various domains such as Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Procurement, Customer service, Financial & Accounting, Knowledge Service, HR Operations, Life Sciences & Order Management,” he added. 

“Our other placement events will take place on December 10 and 11. We have also initiated talks with some of the firms like Vodafone and Kotak but their visit is still to be finalised,” added Kalita.

Recently, Wipro BPO, the BPO arm of global IT giant Wipro, and Gauhati University (GU) organized a mega job fair for students of the university. In this first ever partnership at this scale in the north-eastern part of the country, Wipro selected around 42 students for providing job in BPO.

Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, training and placement officer, GU said, “Nearly 42 students are selected by Wipro during the fair. Those selected are graduates from different colleges under the GU.”

Though the State and the region can not boast of the best quality infrastructure in its education sector, the number of students joining the job after getting through the selection procedure is higher than many of the leading States of the country. 

This credibility and the dedication of the North-east work force is sure to draw the national and multinational companies for the recruitment drive to the region in future,” added Kalita.
(The Assam Tribune,10.12.2007)            
























  


       
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