Honda Present Awards to 14 IIT students

Honda has declared the list of 14 awardees, selected for its 9th Young Engineers and Scientists’ (Y-E-S) awards program. The initiative, taken back in 2008, aims to encourage young Indian technocrats towards eco-technology and motivate them for higher academic achievements. It was started by Honda India and is executed by Honda Motor India Pvt. Ltd. on its behalf.

All the recipients are from India’s premier technological institute - Indian Institute of Technology. They are given a scholarship of cash equivalent of US $3000 each which gives them an opportunity to opt for higher studies in Japan. Criteria for the same was excellent academic record, technical papers/essays written and a one-on-one interview. Awards were presented by the chief guest his excellency Mr. Kenji Hiramatsu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Japan.

Talking about Y-E-S Awards, Mr. Keita Muramatsu, Director, Honda Motor India Pvt Ltd said, “It has been our endeavor to promote and encourage young students to involve in higher research in the field of technology. We want to provide them the opportunity with Y-E-S awards so that they can fulfill their dreams. He added, “All the editions of Y-E-S awards have received tremendous response and enthusiasm from the IIT students who put in their best efforts to showcase their work. So far we have awarded 112 such students in 9 years”.

The name of the awardees are as follows: 

Archit Agarwal- IIT BHU, Soumyadeep Paul - IIT BHU, Palak Jain - IIT Bombay, Rushikesh A Handal - IIT Delhi, Saanwra Khod - IIT Guwahati, Varnika Menghnani - IIT Guwahati , Hardik Parwana - IIT Kanpur, Saksham Agarwal - IIT Kanpur, Arna Ghosh - IIT Kharagpur, R. Sai. Akshaya - IIT Madras, B. Ramasubramanian - IIT Madras, Raghul Manosh Kumar - IIT Madras, Sidak Pal Singh - IIT Roorkee, Sopan Khosla - IIT Roorkee.

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