According to sources in a move that could bring relief to hundreds of students pursuing Information technology, Electronics and Instrumentation and Production engineering courses in anna university, the government of tamilnadu has declared these courses to be equivalent to the primary courses offered by their department when considering for recruitment into public services.
Meanwhile according to a report, a recent government order announced these changes which would give equal employment opportunities to a Computer Science engineer and an Information technology engineer in the public sector. Earlier job postings from the state government which required the applicants to be Computer Science engineers were closed to graduates of Information technology Engineering though the two branches of engineering share the same syllabus for five or six semesters out of the total eight semesters. Hence this excluded hundreds of IT engineering graduates from being eligible to apply for government jobs in Tamilnadu.
Moreover the government order has also opened the doors for colleges to woo recruiters with this order as the base to pick more students from the college for jobs. Apparently a placement cell officer from a private engineering college in Tiruppur told that the college can rely on the GO while convincing the recruiting companies to interview more students for job offers.
