Campus recruitments, which kicked off at the rate of 6-10 companies per day, at

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Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, has slowed down due to the holiday season that started soon after day one of placements early in December.

IIT-M’s placement cell had aimed at completing the process by February. But, with just about 550 out of the 1,077 students placed so far, the institute is preparing a second list of companies. “About 20 companies, who had committed to visit at the start of placements, cancelled their visit to the campus for placements during the holiday season,” IIT-M student affairs secretary Karthik Medarmetla said.

“Some of them like HAL and KLA Tencor have postponed their visits,” he said. So far, 140 companies have picked students from IIT-M.

With about 50 per cent of the students placed, the institute is scouring for IT companies. “We expect a round of IT companies to visit the campus, and are in talks with them. So far, we have confirmed Wipro,” Karthik said.

But, there won’t be many computer science students to pick, as the department has been the first to achieve near 100 per cent placements. “Electrical and mechanical have also done well, followed by chemical. The new department, engineering design also achieved 95 per cent placement,” he said. “We mostlty have civil, aeronautical, metallurgy and such specialised students left.”

“The placements will go on well into the term, and end by March,” he said. For the first time the institute has invited 15-20 start-up enterprises run by its alumni. This is expected to bring small enterprises across multiple domains to the campus on Jan 30 and 31.