IIT Gandhinagar BTech student awarded Cargill Global Scholarship for 2021-22

NEW DELHI : Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar’s BTech student Progyan Das has been awarded Cargill Global Scholarship for the year 2021-22. Das is a student of BTech in Computer Science and Engineering.

As part of the scholarship programme, Progyan will receive a significant scholarship award for two years and will get to attend leadership development conferences or seminars, networking events, case study presentations, and one-on-one mentoring programmes organised by Cargill in India and abroad.

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Sharing his thoughts on this achievement, Progyan Das said, “I feel delighted to be one of the Cargill Global Scholars for this year. Seeing my photograph in the email document next to the photographs of my co-awardees from across the country, who have also done some incredibly amazing things, was an intensely humbling experience. But perhaps the greatest outcome from becoming a Cargill Scholar is their invaluable mentorship programme, and that is something I am greatly looking forward to.”

Only 10 undergraduate students from all over India get a chance to be part of the Cargill Global Scholars Programme every year. The scholarship programme is a distinctive, two-year leadership development programme that provides financial support and one-on-one mentoring to students for leadership development.

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Recently, IIT Gandhinagar’s PhD scholar , Rishiraj Adhikary has been awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship 2022-23. He’s working under the supervision of Professor Nipun Batra in the discipline of Computer Science and Engineering.