Nine companies were blacklisted by IIT Bombay, The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay barred these companies from recruiting its students. This is the first instance of an IIT making public such a list – as mandated by the All-IIT Placement Council (AIPC) last week.

This decision was put forth as the companies revoked job offers given to its students. The nine companies that were blacklisted are as follows:

-Portea Medical

-GPSK

-Johnson Electric, China

– LeGarde Burnett Group

– Peppertap

-LexInnova

-Mera Hunar

-Cashcare Technologies

-Indus Insights

 And the reasons that are said behind the blacklisting the above companies that it,

-Revoking of offers in case of GPSK, Portea Medical, Peppertap and Cashcare Technologies

-Delay in joining dates as with Indus Insights and Lex Innova

-LeGarde Burnett Group not just revoked offers but the company was found to be fake with no proper office address

-Mera Hunar came with a different name and hired students for another startup.

The combined list of blacklisted companies at the IITs is likely to far surpass 9. Blacklisted startups alone are expected to be over 20. “These 9 are companies that had created issues at IIT Bombay,” said Shreyash Gupta, placement manager at IIT Bombay.  Among the list of blacklisted companies. After a face-off with the IITs, the ecommerce major had offered to arrange internships for affected students as a stopgap measure.

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