02-20-2008, 02:13 AM
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Its not only an MBA from prestigious institutes that offers a fat package, the least sought after courses like Sanskrit are also offering huge pay-cheque. A Sanskrit student of St Stephen's College has bagged a package of Rs 7.2 lakh per annum from a multinational company in the campus placement held last week. Third year student of St Stephen's College, Dipika Ballari Singh, has been offered a job in the trade commodity section of the Jaypee Group, a well diversified infrastructural industrial conglomerate in India.
<b>"The company has recruited me on a package of Rs 7.2 lakh per annum. They have put me into the trade commodity section in which I am supposed to trade in fixed income, foreign exchange and stock index markets,"</b> said Singh, brimming with confidence.
<b>She said that the offer has broken the myth that Sanskrit graduates cannot compete other arts graduates for recruitment in multinational companies.
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"Teaching, research work or preparing for Indian Administrative Services (IAS) has long been the preferred career option for Sanskrit graduates. Few Sanskrit students even try for multinational companies. My selection may set a trend and bring confidence to the students pursuing Sanskrit," she added. Singh knows all the Shlokas of Geeta by heart and boast of winning several prizes in the competitions held at college and university level. She believes that the subject gave her an outlook to life, to understand human nature. Singh's classmate Swati Jha has also been offered a job by a media house.
The teachers of Sanskrit department are elated with the achievement of the two girls. They hold their success as a preamble to the success story of the most underestimated course, Sanskrit.
"In our college, we use trilingual - Hindi, English and Sanskrit - medium to teach the subject. This makes the students do well in all fields. The selection of this girl in a multinational company has proved this point," said Pankaj Mishra, a teacher in the Sanskrit department of the college.
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pioneer.com
Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Its not only an MBA from prestigious institutes that offers a fat package, the least sought after courses like Sanskrit are also offering huge pay-cheque. A Sanskrit student of St Stephen's College has bagged a package of Rs 7.2 lakh per annum from a multinational company in the campus placement held last week. Third year student of St Stephen's College, Dipika Ballari Singh, has been offered a job in the trade commodity section of the Jaypee Group, a well diversified infrastructural industrial conglomerate in India.
<b>"The company has recruited me on a package of Rs 7.2 lakh per annum. They have put me into the trade commodity section in which I am supposed to trade in fixed income, foreign exchange and stock index markets,"</b> said Singh, brimming with confidence.
<b>She said that the offer has broken the myth that Sanskrit graduates cannot compete other arts graduates for recruitment in multinational companies.
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"Teaching, research work or preparing for Indian Administrative Services (IAS) has long been the preferred career option for Sanskrit graduates. Few Sanskrit students even try for multinational companies. My selection may set a trend and bring confidence to the students pursuing Sanskrit," she added. Singh knows all the Shlokas of Geeta by heart and boast of winning several prizes in the competitions held at college and university level. She believes that the subject gave her an outlook to life, to understand human nature. Singh's classmate Swati Jha has also been offered a job by a media house.
The teachers of Sanskrit department are elated with the achievement of the two girls. They hold their success as a preamble to the success story of the most underestimated course, Sanskrit.
"In our college, we use trilingual - Hindi, English and Sanskrit - medium to teach the subject. This makes the students do well in all fields. The selection of this girl in a multinational company has proved this point," said Pankaj Mishra, a teacher in the Sanskrit department of the college.
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