Mumbai: The note ban or demonetisation has not stopped top companies from offering high salaries to freshers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB).

With high salary packages of 1.10 lakh USD per annum to 60 lakh Japanese Yen per year, students at IIT have bagged lucrative employments in international firms at the ongoing placement season.

Indian companies are no far behind either, offering impressive packages with Blackstone making the highest offer at Rs.35lakh per annum. Schlumberger, World Quant and Xerox Research are also offering packages as high as Rs.28lakh/annum, Rs.25lakh/annum and Rs.22lakh/annum respectively.

US company Uber has offered the highest package of 1.10 lakh US dollars, followed by Microsoft offering 1.06 lakh USD and 1 lakh USD by Oracle.

Japanese companies such as Works App, Yahoo, Rakuten and Toyo Engineering have also offered big packages with the highest at 60 lakh Japanese Yen.