Mangalore: Karavali College organized a mega career placement drive ‘Karavali Placement Mela – 2011’, on Friday May 27 attracting a huge number of job aspirants.
Around 12,480 students from various places like Mangalore, Udupi, Kasargod, Shimoga and Chikmagalur and others participated on the very first day. Out of it around 3,228 got selected.
The placement mela will continue on Saturday May 28 also.
Speaking at the formal stage programme, Karavali Group chairman Ganesh Rao said that the college encourages a large number of aspirants of the society to take part in the mela.
He also said that drive has received good response. Already 104 companies ranging from banking, engineering, BPO, KPO, IT, computer, insurance, automobile sales, marketing, auditing, ITES, logistics, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication, manufacturing, designing and garment industry, building and interior designing have come to the mela to select the best aspirants.
L & T, Infotech, Mphasis, Robo Soft Technologies, HDFC, ICICI, Lombard, Tata Motors, CareerNet, IDBI, Pantaloons, Lifestyle, ICICI Prudential, Bajaj Allianz, Maruti Suzuki, Suvasu Solutions, Axix Bank, Future Generali, Future Group, Reliance Money, Star, Winman Software, Hyundai, Chevrolet, Ocean Pearl, Ford, Diya Systems and Goldfinch are among the 100 reputed companies participating in the job fair to fill 5,000 posts.
Shubhanaini welcomed the gathering. Sunil Shetty proposed vote of thanks. Lavita D’Souza compered the programme. Director Latha G Rao, placement officer Zeshan and coordinator Samson John were present.