patna at a time when the companies are resorting to financial restructuring by laying off employees and their salary cuts in order to survive the economic crisis induced by covid19 premier colleges in the city are finding it increasingly difficult to get their students placed amid the pandemicrishikesh kumar assistant professor at nift patna said the textile and fashion industry has suffered losses due to the pandemic and that has directly reflected in their placement drive in 2020the economic slowdown has affected the businesses of our regular recruiters as they had to abruptly shut down their operations in march many of our final year students were not able to finish their internships as well hence the chances of preplacement offer are lost the placement drive for the 2020 batch is still going on as many of the students are yet to be recruited kumar saidkriti k assistant professor of management at chanakya national law university patna cnlu said even though the placement committee at cnlu reached out to 60 firms this year their response has been grim the only positive development is that the companies that have offered jobs before the pandemic have not rescinded any so fareven though the date of joining given by many companies has been deferred owing to the travel restrictions no job offers have been revoked so far said kirtiwhile placement for the 2020 batch was a cakewalk for nit patna things seem a little difficult for the 2021 batchsamrat mukherjee professor in charge of training placement at nit patna said for the batch of 2020 more than 60 companies came to campus and 93 of students were placed but for the batch of 2021 i cannot say anything at the moment a few corporate giants have recruited from campus while four to five are lined up in the coming weeks but if i compare the situation to last year we had three times more companies coming to our campus by this time