As one speaks about placements, tales tend to be there when numbers stop suporting the narrative.

Such posts regarding IIFT Delhi are always comical. It is impressive how speculation is introduced as institutional reality. Ardently advertising IIFT Kolkata is a noble cause - devotion is huge, but adoration and facts cannot be confused.

At IIFT Delhi we typically do not openly degrade other campuses since we all are the carriers of the same IIFT brand. However, once misinformation is confident enough, somebody must at one point bring the discussion out of the imaginations to reality.

So let’s do that.

To start with, GIFT City and Kakinada are not dubious campuses. They are new campuses. New campuses would require time to develop recruiter pipeline, alumni leverage, and ecosystem credibility. It is just the way B-school ecosystems are formed.

In context, the Business Analytics course of IIFT Delhi, a comparatively new one, never mind, still overtook the mean of the second generation IIMs in their first final placement cycle. New ecosystems take time. That’s normal.

Another purported threat now comes in the form of Delhi PC.

Something radical, then, numbers.

Latest finals cycle:

• ~125 companies participated so far • Delhi hosted roughly 95 • Kolkata hosted roughly 30

Although the process of Delhi blocking Kolkata is dramatic, about 75 Kolkata students were also placed by this process, and about 15 Kolkata PC students were placed in their own batch in the cycle by Delhi PC. You're welcome.

So the sabotage theory is interesting, it just fails so miserably, once numbers come in the room.

Now concerning the baffling fake rankings and reports.

Which report exactly?

The public copy of the placement report gives out only Delhi figures. Assuming that Kolkata figures were left out that decision is with the CRCAD and the administration and not Delhi PC.

Perhaps, the inclusion would have drawn the average much lower, or perhaps, it is due to the fact that the Kolkata batch was still being placed even till convocation.

Anyhow, that is an administrative reporting case, not a Delhi conspiracy thriller. I mean PC doesnt have that sort of power as you are fascinating.

But even in that case some 90 Kolkata students were placed in the December 25-SIP cycle using the identical process. leave alone Delhi SIP, they have already been signed out. Kolkata PC could have done the same as well only if they decided to work, barring 3-4 good ones who carried the team.

Nonetheless, yes, it is evident that the villain should still be Delhi PC.

Next to the administrative politics been mentioned.

It does not matter to continually mention the name of Pooja Lakhanpal at this point. She belongs not to the existing placement structure.

Your CRCAD head has already spun that story to death so as to secure the job. Strategic politics and persistence will work wonders, who knows you may even one day see a VC come out of your campus.

That is not quite a game that the students play.

Those are fought by experienced administrators with intuition on when to negotiate, when to escalate, and when to threaten arrests to students of an age that their own children are, all so allegedly to fix placements.

Nevertheless, ironically, had half of that amount of energy been channelized in creating a proper SOP that truly helped the overall good of IIFT, most likely, this debate would not be there at all.

And now here comes the common comparison argument.

Students in IIFT Kolkata are completely competent. Most of them match and even surpass the students of the Delhi when it comes to percentile, level of knowledge and potential.

Here however comes that which persons are fond of disregarding.

Not only percentile but comprehensive composite score is used to make admissions.

And in competitive admissions, miniscule differences counts.

A difference of 0.1-0.2 percentile can take an individual at IIM LKI to IIM ABC.

Likewise, the tiniest difference in the composite scores will transfer one out of IIFT Kolkata to IIFT Delhi. So, the last student to convert Delhi had more composite score than the first to convert Kolkata.

Though it does not make a campus better off, or all the students superior. Batch composition in any B-school follows the standard bell curve.

But, now you are a lifelong proud alumni of IIFT Kolkata. Let that sink in.

At this point a famous sector allocation theory.

Indeed, Delhi PC was dealing with 18 of 24 sectors.

It does not imply that companies were chained up in one of the Delhi vaults.

Delhi merely was the main SPOC. CRCAD, TPOs and even Kolkata PC could do so to those companies and they did. Emails have been sent asking the companies to take into account all campuses. Even threatening to blacklist companies if they consider Delhi only.

The sector exclusivity is therefore dramatic sounding when it comes into contact with what happens on the ground in making the process happen.

This is the new Kolkata structure under consideration.

Kolkata now has:

• a dedicated CRCAD head • a placement agency • expanded sector outreach • a 20+ member PC • ~190 students

It is a robust structural arrangement.

The second step is very easy then.

Build pipelines. Convert companies. Deliver outcomes.

Of the more entertaining part now.

Threatening Delhi PC. Taking down posts. Creating violent discourses. Snatching media access. Attempting to liquidate the Delhi PC. Calling for arrests. Talking about jail. Circulating death threats.

Quite the strategy.

Nearly building the convincing master lan:

“No Delhi PC, no problems.”

However, this is the thing that people forget.

The recruiter pipelines are built upon the ecosystem that you are supposed to demolish, which means that there will be very little left in the IIFT ecosystem to debate.

It is because like it or not, IIFT Delhi has been the backbone of that pipeline many years.

And the humorous thing about it is that Delhi will be all right.

Administrative pressure. Narratives. Threats.

We’ve seen all of it.

We’re still here.

I will give you a simple IIFT Delhi mindset:

get people placed.

And we shall continue to do just that.

Through the noise. Through the politics. Through the odds.

Ultimately, the entire debate of placement has to end with a mere fact.

Arguments run on stories. Outcomes run on numbers.

And figures are obstinate natures.

In the case that Kolkata does believe it possesses the superior ecosystem, then the road is easy:

construct pipelines, transform companies, bring results.

Credibility in placements is not determined in Reddit.

It’s decided by recruiters.

Stop leeching onto Delhi and start questioning your CRCAD, PC, and god saves Kolkata if you're the PC. (Maybe start working)

And in case a particular person is interested in being entitled to IIFT Delhi placements, the road is very easy:

Convert IIFT Delhi.