India's IT students feel the heat

They sold their land or mortgaged their belongings to send their children to expensive self-financing colleges. With the job scenario not looking bright I find a lot of depressed students from these kind of families. I keep on assuring them things will improve," he says.

Hari - a final year student of mechanical engineering - was keen on an IT job and went for a few interviews. But he has yet to get a job.
"Manufacturing companies are cutting jobs because of the recession and the same is happening in the IT sector, so we are worried," he says.

Vijay Ram and Sundaram are final year students of printing technology. Both of them got placements in a reputed IT-based multinational company. But now they want to explore their chances with other companies.