Chennai rains: IIT-Madras students may lose out on good offers

NEW DELHI: IIT-Madras students may lose out on good offers to other IITs in the country as Chennai continues to be in the grip of torrential rains, rendering its campus out of bounds, which has forced the institute to defer its placement process for the first time.

The engineering institute has rescheduled the placements to December 5 to allow the companies that could not make it to the campus on December 2-3 to participate in the process. These companies will now come to campus on December 5 as per their schedule on December 2, the second day of the ongoing placements season.

“This is an unprecedented incident but we had to take a decision to reschedule the placements from December 5,” IIT Madras’ placement incharge Professor Babu Vishwanathan told ET. He said so far the institute had been reaching out to all the HR heads of the companies that had lined up their requests for placement earlier.