Ludhiana, July 19 (UNI) A number of leading companies in the tractor and farm machinery manufacturing business are making a beeline to the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) for recruiting agricultural engineers, who seem to be much in demand.

John Deere Farm Equipment and John Deere Technology Centre India, the group companies of global leader John Deere dealing in tractors, farm equipment, earth moving equipment and financial services visited College of Agricultural Engineering at the PAU campus here yesterday for in-campus interviews. The company selected three students of the College and offered jobs one year in advance as these selected candidates will be completing their degree in June next year.

Revealing this, Dr V R Sharma, Dean, College of Agricultural Engineering, assured the visiting organisation every support for such initiatives and efforts for developing the skill set of candidates further to make them well prepared to get placed in the industry. Seeing the student's caliber, faculty strength and institutional infrastructure like labs and other facilities, John Deere showed good interest in joining hands for more industry-institution interactions.

A panel of four executives of the company from Pune had conducted a day long recruitment process comprising of written test, group discussion and personal interviews.

Besides John Deere, other companies like TAFE, Kirloskar, Mahindra abd Mahindra, New Holland Tractors, Claas India and Punjab Tractors Limited have also visited the PAU for on-campus interviews.

R&D chief from TAFE, Chennai is expected to visit college campus to have first hand information on infrastructure and other facilities in the college and interaction with faculty and students for future collaborations.

UNI