chandigarh covid19 has upset the plans of panjab universitys engineering students who were looking to join their first company in june after finishing internship and training by midmayhired in january by 63 companies who came to the uiet university institute of engineering and technology campus these 308 job aspirants hope their pay stands the same as offered but their bigger concern is the uncertainty of the examination schedule that will decide their joining date when the lockdown started in march the companies abandoned their training programmes which will affect the students annual internal assessmentuiet training and placement officer sarbjeet singh saida few students called me up to know the examination schedule the companies are after them for this detail to be able to prepare their offer letter in normal scenario the training ends in may and by june the students join the jobs that were offered to them in januarythe training officer said that no company had withdrawn any job offer so far and the institute hoped that hiring will continue after the lockdown is over covid19 will affect placements and the companies might change the salary structure he said for the first time the uiet students had won annual pay offers of rs 41 lakh more that double of rs 16 lakh and rs 20 lakh reecived in the previous two years the big three club of microsoft google and amazon hired five engineering students of panjab universityof the 308 students who received job offers during placement 256 got through final selection in this session the instutite collaborated with reputed companies such as yamaha motors zscaler deloitte zs associates infosys capgemini and optumopportunity lost in avsaravsar hindi for opportunity and also panjab universitys last annual placement attempt for the firsttime unlucky was also postponed indefinitely because of covid19 almost 350 job seekers were hoping to participatecentral placement cell honorary director meena sharma issued a notice that since the institute had suspended all teaching seminars workshops and group activities during the pandemic the avsarii placement campained scheduled for march 23 and 24 was also postponed the new dates will be posted online an official said this avsar is for the students of arts science management an law usually as engineering departments organise own placement campaigneight companies had agreed to come to the march 201920 avsar until covid19 and the resultant lockdown became an issue for the past four years schools ngos colleges banks training centres consultancies safety groups and sports goods makers have been hiring from this event most of the candidates go into teachingmeena sharma hoped that after the lockdown was over new job opportunities will come in the it and other sectors she said for the safety of students the decision to hold avsarii will be taken after things streamlineafghans still like pueven after covid19 lockdown afghan student continue to be attracted to panjab university and the regional director for admissions continues to receive scholarship applications from themthree professional coursesthe scholarship under various schemes in panjab university three