Five students belonging to the College of Agriculture, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, have received the coveted Bayer Crop Science Fellowship 2014.
These students were picked by the company after a selection process involving two rounds. The staff counselor of Agriculture Society College Dr Shailesh Tripathi informed that Sneha Adhikari, Aparna Gautam, Shipra Gupta, Shalini Jhinkwan, and Manish Singh Bohra were selected for the fellowship. He said that Adhikari is 1st year student of M. Sc. Agriculture (Genetics and Plant Breeding) and would get one time scholarship of Rs50000.
The other four students being undergraduates would receive the scholarship of Rs25000. Tripathi informed that 11 candidates were selected in the first round. In the final round the qualified students were called to Bayer Zonal office Gurgaon where they were asked to deliver presentation on any two topics from leadership, integrity, flexibility, and efficiency.
“These students were further interviewed by two separate panels. The first panel consisted of 1972 batch alumni of Pantnagar-Narendra Arora and Parth Chauhan of Bayer Crop while second panel consisted of Suneet Gularia and SC Sharma. Having qualified all these rounds successfully, top five candidates were selected for the fellowship”, Tripathi said.
Tripathi informed that Bayer Crop science has been offering fellowship to students of three institutions of for last five years. He said that for the first time five students of the College have got this fellowship. The Dean of College Dr J Kumar has congratulated the students and teachers for this achievement.