Patna: Now, virtual internship offer for students

PATNA: In view of the Covid-19 lockdown, which is in its fourth phase, private firms have started offering virtual summer internships to engineering and management students. Academics consider this “a good sign” for those waiting eagerly for pre-placement offers (PPO).
Many students of the Indian Institute of Technology-Patna (IIT-P) and the National Institute of Technology (NIT-P) have already started their internships.
According to Jose V Parambil, in charge of the training and placement cell at the IIT-P, three BTech students have grabbed summer internships at Google after taking part in a technical coding competition.
“Despite the lockdown, two other BTech students have received summer internship offers from the Imperial College (London) and Greyc Research Centre of the University of Caen Normandy (France),” Parambil said.
The in charge of NIT-P’s placement cell, Samrat Mukherjee, told this newspaper on Tuesday that more than 30 companies had given internship offers to the students of the institute. “The virtual internship programme has been going on since May 1,” he added.
Apart from private firms, Development Management Institute (DMI) has started an in-house internship programme for the students of postgraduate diploma in management.
DMI dean Niraj Kumar said, “We have asked some reputed organizations giving internship offers to allow our students to work from home. To ensure that they get the desired results, one of our faculty members is guiding them. Besides, we are offering in-house internships so that our students work on various projects of the DMI.”
Amity University pro-vice-chancellor (VC) Vivekanand Pandey said, “Altogether 219 students of different programmes like MBA (48), BBA (125), BA-English (14) and BCom (32) have been selected for summer internship programmes. We are also conducting online workshops on artificial intelligence and cloud computing for them.”
Educational institutes claimed that companies had not withdrawn any placement offers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
IIT-P training and placement officer Kripa Shanker said, “Despite the challenges, we have not witnessed any downside in placement offers yet.”