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MUMBAI: All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has extended the last date for admissions to engineering courses to December 31, after requests from many state governments. In a revised circular, the council said dates have been extended only where counselling and admissions had not started due to delayed CET. Meanwhile, the state CET cell plans to complete admissions to all courses, including engineering, MBA/MMS, law and BEd in two rounds, instead of three. Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/79578938.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

HIRING SEASON Major information technology firms offer ₹40L package a year MUMBAI: After a two-year slump, the city’s engineering colleges are seeing a rise in offers and pay packages from information technology (IT) companies, with some even touching ₹40 lakh. While IT firms such as Accenture, Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Infotech, Capgemini and Infosys are hiring students in bulk, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro opted for a pan-India centralised recruitment process. “We are witnessing a surge in demand for IT and computer science graduates compared to last year. There has been an unusual growth in packages, which wasn’t seen in the past decade,” said Gopakumaran Thampi, principal, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (TSEC), Bandra. Here’s an example: Accenture made 178 offers at the KJ Somaiya College of Engineering this year, up from 130 and 140 offers in 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. The recruitment figure for the company was much higher – 301 – in 2015-16...