West Bengal, India: IIT Kharagpur has set the historic record to create a benchmark crossing 1600 plus offers, the highest placement among all IITs with 1100 offers. IIT Kharagpur celebrates the avalanche of offers in the Phase I of placement season 2021 by achieving the target within 10 days. Due to the early progress, IIT Kharagpur has concluded the first phase of placement for this year by 11th December 2021 and the second phase is proposed to start in the 2nd week of January 2022. It started with the Career Development Centre (CDC) of IIT Kharagpur receiving 400 plus Pre Placement offers (PPO). IIT KGP placed 1500 plus students on the seventh day (i.e 07 Dec 21) of its placement drive which surpassed all the previous years’ total placement figures. IIT Kharagpur bagged 22+ offers in the CTC range of 0.9 – 2.4 crore out of which 10+ offers were made by domestic companies. The total number of international offers are more than 35. The average number of hires per company has also increased, leading to an overall increase in the number of offers per day. More than 245 companies have participated in this placement season thus contributed to this milestone. This year companies across all sectors including Software, high level coding, analytics, consulting, core engineering companies, banking / finance, high frequency trading etc. have participated in the process. In the first phase of placement session Google, Microsoft, Micron Technology, Uber, Honeywell, Excel and many more valuable partners have led to this successful run. Prof. A. Rajakumar, Chairman, Career Development Centre, IIT Kharagpur thanked all the recruiters for their wonderful cooperation and said that they look forward to nourish the relationship and expedite more engagement for mutual benefit in career industry and expressed their positive hiring feedback.