mangaluru after conducting classes and exams online this academic year the national institute of technologykarnataka surathkal has conducted remote campus recruitment in which 85 undergraduate and 57 postgraduate students have been picked primarily by technology and core engineering companies reports kevin mendonsadespite the pandemic a student of the countrys premier tech school bagged the highest annual pay package of rs 515 lakh from a startup the average student yearly pay package has gone up to rs 11 lakh this year from rs 10 lakh last year269 companies took part in campus hiring 15 yet to joininterestingly more companies have participated in this years recruitment drive which will go on till end of june till now 269 companies have taken part in the process and 15 companies are yet to join in this year the company tally is expected to be 284 way higher than 256 of the last yearthe institute has 800 undegraduate students of which 666 were eligible for the drive and 566 students of them have been made job offers so far the pg sections have 600 students and 541 candidates of them are participating in the placement process as many as 339 or 57 candidates have been placed so farlast year most of the recruitments had been done in the traditional fashion before covid19 broke out towards the end of march and only the last few days of the drive went onlinevijay desai chairman of career development centre of nitk surathkal said the institution expects at least 30 more btech and mtech students to land jobs by this monthend some legacy companies which were on the campus include isro bel belcrl and gail and they zeroed in on a good number of students from btech and mtech streamscs it students in demandalmost every single student of computer science and it was picked with these streams accounting for 100 and 98 respectively campus hiring at least 70 btech students from each department walked away with job offers about 80 students or 10 of total btech strength in the final year stayed away from placements since they said they have secured admissions for higher studies in institutions in india and abroad