A NITian review for PG in mechanical of batch 2020 of NITKKR.

The admission in the MTech of NIT KKR is based on the process of MTech counselling CCMT organised by one of the NIT every year. The basis of counselling is your GATE Score. There is category-wise seat distribution. After the allotment of the seat in the college, a date is assigned for the admission and submitting fees and apply for a hostel if want to. The process is smooth and guided at each step by the faculty of NIT. I am a general student so there was no quota as such. I applied to this college only at my first priority because of the trade and college. The basis of admission is gate score and one can see the last yr cut off from the CCMT website to analyze once status for the current year. The fee of admission is submitted online also at the time of admission through net banking or UPI or ATM also.

I chose this course because of the specialization of IP in its mechanical department. The faculty-to-student ratio is 1:17 for MTech. All the faculties are PhD holders and at positions of asst. associate and professor post. Few ad-hoc PhD holder faculties are also appointed to help in the teaching. The teaching is very detailed and faculties often use a projector room or conference room for the teaching. Industrial visits are made to research labs and industries nearby like Karnal, Chandigarh, Delhi for the students. The exams are timely taken and the syllabus is decided by the faculty. The questions are framed by the faculty and checked by him/her only. However, the question type varies every time and faculty adhere to the pattern of the question paper decided by the dept but he can modify it according to the course need.

Companies like Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, hero motocorp, Stryker, Kompanion, exl, IBM, L&T, Mu Sigma, Mahindra, ARB Bearing, Saint Gobain, Synopsys and Sapoorji and Pallonji etc come to visit campus for internships. All give the role of PG trainee or PG analytics and stipend vary from 15000/- to 35000/- per month based on the role and location. Most given locations are Pune, Chandigarh, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida and Nagpur. The projects are given based on the batch and the PPO is offered also to many students except a few. The PPO is given at the end of 9 months in one year internship.

The internship of one year with PPO comes at end of 2nd sem of MTech and placements come from 3rd sem. Companies like L&T, Tata Motors, Stryker, Oxygen, ByJus, Capgemini, Accenture, Delhivery, Hero, Maruti and Suzuki, Godrej, ARB Bearings, Infosys and many more visit say 50+ visits and among them, for Mtech there are 30+ companies. The process of placement includes pre-placement talk, written test followed by technical and HR interview. Many coaching institutes also visit to hire MTech students. The median salary is 500000/- INR pa and highest is 22 lakh and the lowest is 400000/- pa. Approx 30-45% get placed as an intern and placed students. I had planned for PhD so I headed for that and currently doing PhD from IIT Delhi.

Fees are somewhat 48000/- to 52000/- INR per sem which is less as compared to other NITs of west and south. Apart from this, there is a hostel mess fee charged which accounts for roughly 4000/- INR for every hostel. There is a fee hike of 500-1000 every year. There is a scholarship for category students and other schemes regarding financial assistance is provided for students whose family income is less. The student has to apply for it in the accounts section of the college. There stipend provided by the MHRD of 12400/- INR for doing Mtech but for that monthly performance is monitored by the guide of the student. The internship opportunities arrive from the end of the 2nd sem of Mtech and the placement comes for the student in the 3rd sem of Mtech.

There is the biggest fest of north India called Confluence which has a lot of technical events, co-curricular events, gala nights and performances by leading celebrities in the field of comedy, dance, music, and acting. It is conducted in November and December generally. Also, there is two sports fest one for athletic and the other for activities like swimming, cricket, football, basketball, badminton and TT etc. Many classrooms are having ACs and coolers inbuilt. A lot of effort is given to sports and recreation activities. Apart from that round the year, cocurricular activities like dance, drama, music, poster, wall painting, photography, online gaming, speech, debate nukkad Natak69 etc. are organised by the student clubs for the college time to time and on events and festivals. There are a lot of clubs like literature, Hindi, photography, art and culture, technical clubs that students will enjoy during their stay in college. All are recognized by the college administration.

The registration for the hostel is done at the time of admission and can be applied later too. Caution fee of 10000/- INR is charged and later mess and miscellaneous charge come to usually 4000/- INR per month. There are 13 hostels for boys and 3 for girls. There is a mega hostel for Mtech and PhD students. All hostels have TT table, badminton court, volleyball court, carrom, chess etc. with them. Their students mess committee made of 10-15 students who monitor the mess menu, food quality, cleanliness in the hostel. The hostel mess and the common room is AC equipped and electric water filters are provided at each floor end. the bathrooms and washrooms are cleaned every day and sanitised too. There is no shortage of rooms in the hotel and you will miss fast LAN service if life as a day scholar.