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PSUs to Recruit on GATE Score

NEW DELHI: The maharatna and the navratna PSUs have decided to recruit fresh graduates of various engineering colleges based on their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score from next year's placement season.

                                         
For example, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), a maharatna company, has written to engineering colleges saying they will recruit candidates based on their GATE score, group discussions and the interview and asked the institutes to encourage students to appear for GATE.


The PSUs say this will make a qualitative difference in the recruitments and that it will set a standardized process, but the engineering institutes are divided over the matter. While confirming recruitments will be based on GATE score, Deepna Mehta, a spokesperson of NTPC, said:


"We won't conduct our own exams for recruitment and will rely on GATE score followed by GDs and interviews. Though, for the time being, we will continue our campus visits, it will be restricted. This to encourage recruitments based on GATE score." An HR official of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, a navratna company, said, "Setting eligibility criteria based on GATE score will ensure credibility and give qualitative impetus to the process."

Posted on 21 Oct 2011