Financial times reports that TCS has hired around 1100 students from Orissa. The primary colleges were ITER, CET and KIIT. As the paper rightly remarks, Orissa is emerging as a major talent pool for IT recruitment. This should be used as a platform by the IT ministry in the state to request other big companies to set up units in the state.

As a side note, KIIT has made tremendous progress in the last few years . It jumped around 65 places in the all India ranking (done by Ooutlook magazine) to 37.