New academic session for first-year BTech students begins at NIT Jamshedpur

The institute organised an online orientation programme to welcome the freshers and notified the students that all classes will be conducted online.  

The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, began the new academic session today (December 20, 2021). An online orientation programme was held to welcome the fresh batch of BTech students. 

The programme was mandatory for freshers. In a circular, the institute notified students that all regular online classes will be conducted through Microsoft Teams.  

NIT Jamshedpur held its 11th convocation ceremony recently in which a total of 904 students were awarded degrees. However, keeping in mind the COVID-19 pandemic, of the total 904 graduating students, about 400 students were invited to the institute to receive certificates on the occasion. 

Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan attended the convocation ceremony as the chief guest virtually, while Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda, the guest of honour, attended the ceremony physically. 

NIT Jamshedpur Director Karunesh Kumar Shukla said, “Five convocation functions took place between 2017 and 2021 during my tenure as an NIT Director.” Shukla said a boys’ hostel with the intake capacity of 1,000 students will come up on the campus at a cost of INR 91 crore. 

Meanwhile, 42 students have received an annual salary package of INR 40 to 50 lakh, 65 students have got INR 30-40 lakh salary package, whereas 120 students have been offered INR 20 to 30 lakh per annum. Till now, 97 students of computer science, 80 of civil, 84 of electrical, 96 of electronic communication, 89 of mechanical, 72 of production and industrial, 81 of metallurgical and 92 of MCA have been placed.  

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