ludhiana beating the recession blues colleges in ludhiana have performed excellently in campus placements students in top three colleges got jobs on good salary package students of guru nanak dev engineering college gnedc guru nanak institute of management technology gnimt and punjab college of technical education pcte have got placements in prominent national as well as international companies on good salary packages as of now the highest package of rs 9 lakh for the current year has been offered to paramdeep singh birdi of gnedc while gurpreet singh aulakh of gnimt has been given the second highest package of 650 lakh ishan chawla of gne college is 3rd with rs 525 lakh while puneet shokey of gnde college has bagged a package of rs 480 lakh ruchi wadhwa of pcte college has been offered a package of rs 421 lakh dean training and placements gnde college k s mann said several national and international companies visit our campus every year most of the students who were offered good placements and packages are from mechanical engineering stream it is because a student of mechanical engineering has various career options as compared to others he can opt for auto sector aeromatic sector production civil engineering and marian sector their high demand in all sectors boosts their salary packages too head of the placement cell at gnimt rajneesh chopra said in our college trend and opportunities are in favor of mba marketing as all companies need marketing persons to sell their products if i compare marketing with finance and human resources the marking department certainly has more job opportunities and better salary packages pcte assistant placement officer karan jangra said students are more interested in marketing sector as they have more job opportunities and better salary packages in it