Gangtok, Sep 2: Sikkim Chief Minister PS Tamang has Congratulated two Scholars for having secured admission in abroad.

The students , include Vednath Sharma, admitted to MS Aeronautics & Astronautics and Yash Raj Rai, MSc Financial Technology.

V.Sharma has secured admission in Stanford University,London UK , ranking 3rd among the top 20 world Universities with 98.7 %, while YR Rai, has secured admission in Imperial College London,UK, ranking 7th among top 20 of the world with93.3%.

‘ They have been selected under Nar Bahadur Bhandari Fellowship scheme of Sikkim Government

to support the meritorious students of State for higher studies in the top 20 Foreign Universities of

the world.Two of them will be granted Rs 50 Lakhs each. A provision for Rs 1 Crore has already

been made for the NBBFS,’ said Secretary to CM, Shanker Dev Dhakal,CMO, here on Friday.(UNI)