Students from six IITS receive young scientists’ award

NEW DELHI: Honda Motor India Pvt. Ltd. (HMI) recently announced the 11th Edition of the Young Engineer and Scientist’s (Y-E-S) Award for 2017-18 to 14 students from the Indian Institutes of Technology.

The Chief Guest His Excellency Mr. Kenji Hiramatsu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Japan, presented the award to the students in recognition of their outstanding all-round performance in academics.

Dr. (Ms.) Kazuko Matsumoto, Director, Honda Foundation, was the Guest of Honor.

A scholarship of cash equivalent of US $3000 each, was presented to 14 students selected from across six IITS — Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur and Hyderabad on the basis of their academic performance, essays and personal interviews.

The awardees for Y-E-S Award 2017-18 in India include: Satyam Mohla, Pranjal Jhaveri, Ankesh Gupta, Mohit Goyal, Sukrut Sridhar Rao, Shivangi Ranjan, Kumar Kshitij Patel, Preetham Paul Sunkari, Ayan Majumder, Bindu Sancheti, Piyush Nanda, Hari Ramachandran, Anand Anjimeti Rajasekar and Aniket Kamthe.

The Y-E-S Award was instituted by the Honda Foundation in India in 2007 and is facilitated by Honda Motor India, to nurture young students who have excelled in the area of science and technology and aspire for higher academic achievement.

With this programme, Honda Foundation hopes to promote dissemination of ecotechnology among the young generations and, at the same time, to strengthen interaction and exchange between Japanese and Indian youth expected to lead science, technology and industry.