India, April 8 -- As the Coronavirus pandemic has bought the economy to a standstill, reports on top firms withdrawing job offers have begun to erupt. With students from top institutes such as IITs, IIMs, and other technical institutes being impacted due to this issue, fear about graduates being unemployed is on the rise. However, Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Union Cabinet Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India, has taken the matter into cognizance and requested firms to not withdraw job offers.

"I have appealed to all campus recruiters not to withdraw jobs offered to graduating students of technical education institutions," tweeted Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal. The minister goes on to add that the students who the job offer...