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= BEC84 Endowment Fellowship Fund = Bengal Engineering College (BEC), which is now the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST) is a premier institute and second oldest engineering college of India founded in the year 1856. It is in Shibpur in Howrah district of the state of West Bengal, India.

A group of alumni of this institute who passed out in the year 1984 came up with a very noble idea in the year 2022. At the age of 60 years on an average and putting around 38 years of glorious service in different organizations of repute in India and throughout the world, it came to their mind to be a part of those students in their alma mater who are bright and talented but economically weak to sustain their needs while going forward.

So, their bud of thoughts bloomed to a flower of noble creation of a perpetual fellowship. They passed out a resolution in 2022 to start a BEC84 Endowment Fellowship Fund from early 2023. The generated fund would award a fellowship to economically weaker students who are toppers in the college examinations. The selection process would be fully data driven, transparent and through an established robust process.

Once decided and resolution passed, the group of 84 batch approached Global Alumni Association of Bengal Engineering Science University (GAABESU) which is the global forum of all alumni of the college. They have initiated and executed numerous fellowship programs both at individual level and group or batch level since their inception in the year 2005. GAABESU extended their full support and reached an agreement with BEC 84 group of alumni to initiate a BEC84 Endowment Fellowship Fund.

This was announced and circulated through all available social media. GAABESU opened an account to collect funds from 1984 group of alumni and declared to rope these contributions to the act of Indian Income Tax Dept to exempt it from taxes. All set and done, contributions across the world from alumni of 1984 batch of erstwhile BE College started pouring in and overwhelming enthusiasm was seen amongst all for this noble cause.

The corpus collected was decided to be put in a Fixed Deposit in a Bank. The interests earned would be disbursed as fellowship award with some balance amount left in the savings account to take care of inflation in future.

As the corpus started built in with fantastic responses from all over, the BEC 84 group of alumni came up with an unbelievable and astounding idea. It was declared that 84 batch should start the fellowship with 84K yearly. Everyone was thrilled and amazed with such out of the box announcement.

Thus, the BEC84 perpetual fellowship started with Indian Rupees 84000 per annum from April 2023. Every year this “BEC84 Endowment Fellowship Fund” awards the fellowship to economically weaker and needy students of IIEST since 2023.