New Delhi: The alumni of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) in Pilani, Rajasthan, Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi (1978 batch), Sid Mookerji (Batch 1989) and Chaitanya Kalipatnapu (Batch 1998), have pledged one million dollars each to the BITS Endowment Fund, as announced in a press release from the institute.
The Mookerji Foundation, established by BITS alumnus Sid Mookerji and his wife, Sophie Mookerji, has committed one million dollars to support entrepreneurship development initiatives, particularly the expansion of the Ph.D DRIVE (Deep-tech Research Innovation and Value Generation Entrepreneurship) programme.
