Kharagpur: Coal India Limited, a government-run coal company has given 31 offers for students in IIT Kharagpur. India’s premier educational institution Indian Institute of Technology has bagged 31 offers from the government company. However, the salaries have not been released.

More than 1200 offers were given by 280 companies in IIT Kharagpur and over 1100 students accepted the offers. Top companies from across the world like Google, Microsoft, Toyota, VISA, Oracle have visited the campus to recruit students. Some offers also included international postings based in USA, China, Hong Kong.

In the first phase of recruitment, 34 start-up companies have recruited making it the highest number of startups to recruit students from IIT Kharagpur.

“Coal India made the highest number of offers standing at 31 while the department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering had the maximum number of placements with 155 students placed,” an IIT Kharagpur official told reporters.

Few companies like SemiConductor, OLA, Reliance Industries, TATA Steel have offered multi-digit salaries to students.