Hundreds of Students Livid as L&T Infotech Withdraws Letter of Intent

Chennai: L&T Infotech has rejected Offer of Intent letters to at least 1500 students forcing them to go on a hunger strike.

Hundreds of students from several colleges including SRM, RMK and Vellamal received Offer of Intent from L&T Infotech between September and November 2014.

Some of these students claim that they were given tentative joining dates between September and December 2015. However, they say that one and a half years later they received a mail from L&T Infotech to appear for an assessment test.

The students claim that the company said it was just a performance based test that would help them choose the domains for these students.

But a total of 1500 students were rejected after the test.

Students Cry Injustice

"After the rejection mail, we haven’t received any mail from them. We also tried contacting them. There is no response and the HR has not picked up our calls," says a student.

"I thought I would be here for training purpose but now I am here to demand and seek justice from L&T Infotech. I got placed in September 2014 and in December 2014 I was offered the letter. September/October 2015 was my tentative dates to join," adds another.

It is not only students from Chennai who are affected but there are many who are from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

On conditions of anonymity, the placement head from a well-known university said, "The HR informed us that the joining dates have been delayed and post that, they conducted some examination and based on that they have taken the students. We used to speak to Ashok from HR department of L&T. We will support the students. What happened to them is not fair."

But a former L&T Infotech employee claimed the company's business strategy has changed. "We tried our best fighting for the candidates for 3-4 months but we were not given concrete answers by the management," he said.

L&T Infotech did not respond to queries from CNN News18.

However, the development comes at a time when L&T Infotech is all set to go public after getting SEBI’s nod. Moreover, the NASSCOM has predicted that there will be a 20% dip in the IT firms’ hiring process in 2016.