new delhi over 3000 students attended the first phase of the placement process of delhi university on saturday and the stage is all set to get bigger in the second phase with corporates such as ranbaxy new delhi power limited genpact ibm bank of america and systopic among others likely to be present on the campus hunting for talentthe central placement cell cpc of du started its placement drive for students from 78 colleges and departments of the university on saturday with corporates such as wipro technologies ats services wiprobpo and two ngos teach for india and gandhi fellowship turning up on the first day into the second year of placement the cpc witnessed a record number of 3000 students turning up for this recruitment driveaccording to chairperson of cpc dr seema m parihar while the gandhi fellowships chose 22 students 22 others also received offers from wipro bpo on sunday wipro technologies gave presentation to about 550 students from specialized courses bsc honours in computer science electronics physics mathematics and statistics and information technology ats services looked for students who had specialized in applied psychology for hr specialists and msc statistics students for data analysts more than 1800 students from these specialized courses took part said pariharcpc which initiated its placement process for the university in 2008 added the online registration for students from final year of undergraduate and postgraduate courses postgraduate students from several departments were registered for the first time this year moreover the registration process for the corporates is also online last year 593 students were placed by 17 visiting corporates while over 4900 students registered last year this year the number has gone up to over 8000 students according to cpc chairperson parihar we are spacing it out and selecting four to five companies per event and we will keep on having the events as and when we get the confirmation from the companieson second phase parihar said we have also seen a growing interest among the ngos in our placement process and we already have four ngos in our list this year and a few more are expected soon the cpc has 78 colleges and departments on its list which also includes some of the popular colleges such as srcc and st stephens