IITs revoke invitation to blacklisted companies

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have withdrawn placement invitations to three companies, which it sent after blacklisting them in August.

These three companies — Medd, NowFloats and Indus Insights — were among the 30 companies blacklisted by the All IIT Placement Committee (AIPC) for disrespecting job offers.

HT had, on September 12, reported that IITs Delhi, Kanpur, Madras, Kharagpur and Guwahati sent invitations to these companies after the ban. Based on this article, on September 15, 16 IITs revoked all such invites.

In an email to HT, AIPC said: “IITs invited three different companies for campus placement. The reason is oversight by the student placement coordinators. Placements across all IITs are managed by the students’ team.”

IIT Guwahati withdrawn its invitation to Indus Insights, an official from the institute said.

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Dr Syam Nair, chairman, students’ placement office IIT Kanpur said that it is adhering to AIPC’s decision and has already instructed the placement committee to revoke the invitation.

“Sending an invite is not equivalent to getting these companies on campus. That was just a registration request sent to just one company by mistake. We have already revoked it,” said Anishya O Madan of IIT Delhi’s training and placement cell.

Prof Debasis Deb, chairman of the career development centre of IIT Kharagpur also confirmed that no blacklisted companies will be invited for placements.

Meanwhile, Medd received an invitation from IIT Madras on September 21. HT has a copy of the letter.

Prof Manu Santhanam, placement advisor, IIT Madras said: “The mail was not sent out by the placement office. Any invite with the signature of a student coordinator is not a legitimate invite.”

Medd and NowFloats claim that they are yet to receive the letters revoking the invites.