Sanchit Garg, a student of IIM Indore’s Post Graduate Programme (PGP 2014-16) has recently been awarded the Charpak Scholarship by the FrenchGovernment. This scholarship is given based on academic excellence for students going on exchange programme. Sanchit is going to Ecole de Commerce Post bac à Lille et Paris (IESEG), one of the top business schools in France. He will receive a scholarship of 615 Euros per month. Every year, over 1000 students from top B-schools in India apply for this scholarship while it is awarded to only around 50 people.
Sanchit is a 2013 Computer Science graduate from IIIT Delhi and has one year of work-experience. Apart from having a good academic profile, Sanchit is quite proactive in extra-curricular activities, which helped him receive the scholarship. He has been a member of Voyage Capital, investment club of IIM Indore and Beat the Market, a stock trading event in IRIS, IIM Indore’s annual Management & Cultural festival.