आईआईटी खड़गपुरःछात्र को 70 लाख रूपए का पैकेज। प्रोफेसर की तनख्वाह रुकी

फेसबुक पर पहले भी रोज़गार पाने की खबरें छिटपुट रूप से आती रही हैं। मगर,आज टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया की खबर इस लिहाज से सबसे बड़ी है। अखबार की मानें,तो अपना नाम गुप्त रखने के इच्छुक आईआईटी खड़गपुर के एक छात्र को 70 लाख रूपए सालाना के पैकेज पर विदेश में ज्वाइन करने का ऑफर मिला हैः

Facebook on Friday recruited one of its addicts from India.The website,which recently logged its 500 millionth active citizen,made an offer of about Rs 70 lakh for a posting in the United States,which has created a buzz on all IIT campuses where annual placements are on.In the last three days,no other company,domestic or foreign,has come close to offering this kind of a compensation package.

While Facebook is still interviewing more IITians,the student in question,who gives his name as DKS he is to graduate from the school of computer science and engineering at IIT-Kharagpur in 2011 and doesnt want his full name to be revealed has received a join-us post from the website.On his wall,DKS announces how he is hooked to Facebook,which cuts his day by half.He now knows that the social networking site,known as the Big Boss of the web-world,will eat up his days.

On the offer letter,officials from IIT-Kharagpur said Facebook offered a starting salary of $90,000,a relocation bonus of $10,000 and a one-time signing amount of $25,000 to the 21-year-old from Jamshedpur.But on the Kharagpur campus,students said DKS had also been offered ESOPs and the entire offer translates to about Rs 1.7 crore.However,sources in the placement cell did not confirm this.DKS,whose father is a government employee,has in his time at IIT interned as a research assistant at the University of British Columbia and at Microsoft India.

Interviews were on till late Friday at IIT-Madras where Facebook shortlisted 10 students.But,after several rounds of interviews,it did not select anyone from IIT-Delhi.Close to 30 students were placed from IIT-B on Friday.

At IIT-Madras,the highest domestic offer on Friday came from Transocean,which offered Rs 28 lakh and the high point of the day was when Intel offered positions to 30 students.At IIT-B,Tower Research which offered jobs to six students,was among the high paying companies.Several financial institutions Goldman Sachs,Bank of American,Deutsche Bank,Citibank,Capital One have made a come back after lying low in the recessionary years.

N Ramesh Babu,adviser (training and placement),IIT Madras,is both excited as well as in a dilemma of sorts with 250-odd recruiters comprising a mix of old and new economy having lined up in close slots till end-January 2011.

We are in a position where,say,after 20 days you may not have enough students for recruitment.We have not been able to give dates for some companies.Most companies which hire here,will also be going to the other IITs, he said.In the last two days,IIT-Delhi too has seen 110 students being offered jobs(चेन्नै-मुंबई संस्करण,4.12.2010).

उधर,इसी अखबार के दिल्ली संस्करण में अक्षय मुकुल की रिपोर्ट कहती है कि आईआईटी खड़गपुर के निलंबित प्रो. घोष की तनख्वाह रोक दी गई हैः

The human resource development ministry has sought a detailed report on the arrest of A K Ghosh,the suspended professor of aerospace in IIT-Kharagpur,from the institute.

Sources said the human resource development ministry is contemplating that instead of a three-member probe panel,as was decided earlier,a senior official might be sent to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the running of fake institute Institution of Electrical Engineers(I) on the campus of IIT-Kharagpur.

It is believed that directors of two IITs were being made members of the probe team.But,the ministry now feels that investigation by IIT directors might not be a prudent move.There could have been doubts about credibility.Hence,the ministry is likely to carry out an investigation itself, sources said.Already many faculty members in IIT-Kharagpur have voiced concern about the probe being conducted by IIT directors.

The ministrys probe is not going to be limited to the role of Ghosh,but will also look into how other faculty members and former directors like K L Chopra and S K Dube were involved with IEE (I).Complicity of Ghosh though denied by him and Dube has already been widely reported.Role of senior faculty members like S K Lahiri,who has since retired;Y P Singh,former head of department of electrical engineering;J Pal,head of department of electrical engineering and former head of IEE(I) will be probed.

CVC has set a four-week deadline for the ministry to complete the investiagtion.

Meanwhile,IIT-Kharagpur authorities have instructed the bank to debit his salary for November.Earlier,the entire salary was credited to his account,though the rule stipulates that he is only entitled to half of it since he is under suspension.

Now he has been given nothing, an IIT official said.

He pointed out that paying full salary was the fault of the institute for which Ghosh cannot be penalised.

He should have been paid 50% salary, a source said.