IIT-Kgp student bagged Rs 2 Crore job offer

Abhishek Pant, a student of Computer Science programme at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur has recently broke out all placement records and received a job offer of Rs 2 crore per annum from Google, say media reports.

The 22 year old boy belongs from Pune went through several interview rounds and make it to the design solutions cell at Google. Pant will be joining the organisation in September, 2016. The final year student had interned with Google, California for a period of three months earlier this year.

Born and brought up in US, the CBSE Class 10 topper was brought to India in the year 2006 when his family decided to shift to Pune. Initially, his family seemed quite worried about him adapting to the Indian education system. But the boy who was studying in Delhi Public School, responded well and obtained 97.6 per cent in his Class 10 Board Exams.

Abhishek has also broke the records of Chetan Kakkar, who was offered a package of Rs 1.27 crore per annum from Google. Chetan, a final year student of DTU's Information Technology department will be joining Google, California with a remuneration of Rs 1,25,74,200 ($1,90,000) after the completion of his programme in the year 2016.

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