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The Hiralal Agarwal Memorial Scholarship has been instituted by Bhasker D. Agarwal (’70). This scholarship is awarded to a student who is a native of Faizabad, UP.
Bhasker is Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Information Systems and Services, Inc. (ISSI), which he founded in 1987. ISSI’s VisualHOMES software products provide complete property management and real estate software solutions for affordable housing programs. The company’s customers include some of the largest and most well-run housing agencies in North America, managing over one million residents and hundreds of thousands of residential housing units. Bhasker graduated from BITS Pilani in 1970 and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He has recently founded the Hiralal Agarwal Foundation to provide web-based skills development opportunities to students of low income families in the city of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Bhasker and his wife Sarla live in the greater Washington, DC area and have two grown-up children, Rajan and Anurag.
Scholarship Details:- Type of Scholarship: Need based scholarship
- Amount: INR 50,000 per year
- No of scholarships: 1
- Date of Commencement: January 2009
- Campus: Hyderabad
- Awarded to a student from Faizabad. If no student from Faizabad then it is available to any needy student for that year only.
If you would like more information about this scholarship, or have any questions / comments / suggestions, please send a mail to scholarships@bitsaa.org.
Scholarship Recipients:
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Year
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Semester
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Recipient
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ID No
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2008-09
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-
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Ashutosh Pandey
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2008A4PS348
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2011-12
|
I
|
Ashutosh Pandey
|
2008A4PS348
|
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2011-12
|
II
|
Ashutosh Pandey
|
2008A4PS348
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BITSAA Impact:
1) Ashutosh Pandey:
I, Ashutosh Pandey,
studied B.E. (Hons.)-Mechanical Engineering programme at 
BITS Pilani (Pilani
Campus) during 2008-2012. I was born and raised in the Faizabad district, UP. I belong to a lower middle class family.
Though my family had financial problems but my parents always provided me the
best education possible. They used their life savings to pay for my tuition
fee. Luckily in year 2009 I got to know from BITSAA team about Hiralal
Agarwal Memorial scholarship which was announced to support the financially
weak and meritorious students hailing from the Faizabad district. Considering
my family’s financial conditions I applied immediately and was awarded the same
in year 2009. And it helped me a lot to pursue my degree at BITS without
worrying about the financial trouble.
Currently I am working
as a Patent Research Analyst (Mechanical Domain) at a startup in Jaipur.
Academically I would like to do research work in the area of Computational
Fluid Dynamics. My goal in life is to always learn new things and to help
people who are not lucky as I am. In
future I would like to do some work in the education sector for the poor
children who cannot afford good education.
I sincerely thank the
donors of the Hiralal Agarwal Memorial scholarship. It is a great inspiration
for me and I will follow their noble cause so that I can help another needy
student in future.
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