BENGALURU: The Indian Institutes of Technology, one of the most esteemed autonomous public institutes of India, want their students start accepting internship offers from potential employers as reported by ET. This initiation is encouraged so that the institute can boost the count of students who get placed by the period of the final placements season in December.

This initiative popped up due the concern where 5 to 15% of IIT students are left without any job offers almost every year. "Internship is a natural footstep for all the IITs. This will make space for additional students in the final placement season," Debasis Deb, chairman, IIT Kharagpur, Career Development Centre.

With its peak student enrolment rate, IIT Kharagpur has a great task in sight f placing around 2000 students every year, which consists of PhD students, postgraduate and undergraduate. "If we get 300 pre-placement offers this year, which is almost twice of last year's numbers, the strain on final placement gets cut down," Deb said. Nearly all IITs are to start the pre-placement offer season in a few weeks.

Most IITs hardly have 80% placements expressed Kaustubha Mohanty, placement in-charge, IIT Guwahati. “Not a single IIT has 100% success rate in placing all the students.” Apart from low-scoring students who have failed to get placed, there are students who choose to skip placements, accredited to the start-up boom in India, and a few more who wish for higher studies.

"Internship is a courtship course for both students and companies before resolution on job offers," said Mohanty. “It also elevates  the odds of getting a job offer.”

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