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From: Hari Sharma <mastermus...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Pratham Presidents] Requesting funding from Global Grants Scholarship for Studies at Stanford University - Student from IIT Bombay
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From: Eakta <eakt...@gmail.com>
Date: 7 April 2017 at 17:28
Subject: [Pratham Presidents] Requesting funding from Global Grants Scholarship for Studies at Stanford University - Student from IIT Bombay
To: Presidents -16-17 Dist 3141 <1617presidents3141@googlegroups.com>

My Dear Fellow Presidents,

Recd this request mail for a global grant scholarship for studies , anyone who of you who would like to take it up pls do find details in the trailing mail and connect with the concerned.

Thank you

Warm Regards

Eakta

President - RY 16-17
Ph no: 9892730671

Rotary Club of Mumbai Lakers

From: "Saksham Gakhar" <saksham....@gmail.com>
Date: 3 Apr 2017 16:45
Subject: Requesting funding from Global Grants Scholarship for Studies at Stanford University - Student from IIT Bombay
To: <rotary...@yahoo.com>
Cc:

Dear Ms. Eakta & Board Members,

Hope this mail finds you in the best of spirits.

I am a final year undergraduate student from IIT Bombay and had come to your group meeting in March end to discuss financial aid for my graduate studies for which I have secured admission in Stanford University. This is a followup email for the same. My study focus for my Master's course at Stanford is on water mechanics and hydrology and I believe that there is a strong alignment in my career and graduate study goals with Rotary's motives and focus area of 'Water and Sanitation'. Kindly find below in this mail (and also attached), my statement of intent expressing my aspirations and requesting the board to help me finanicially for covering my expenses for the graduate studies through the prestigious Rotary Global Grants Scholarship. I sincerely request the club to sponsor me on whatever amount that is possible where INR 60 lakhs is the total amount including tuition and living costs for my graduate studies.

Kindly let me know if there is anything more (like official offer letter for instance) with regard to my application request that my be needed from my side. Also kindly let me know if I am needed to meet you or any other board member in person with regard to the same.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
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Statement (the same is attached also)
Saksham Gakhar – B.Tech (Hons.), IIT Bombay
Admitted to:- Stanford University , Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology Program

My past four years in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have been very fruitful for my undergraduate career. With a Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) of 9.14 on scale of 10, I am ranked among the top 10 students of my class of 150 students. A recipient of the Charpak Research Internship Scholarship from the French Government (for research internship in France in 2015) and the Purdue Undergraduate Research Experience Scholarship (for summer internship in Purdue University USA in 2016), I have come to appreciate my potential as not only an independent researcher but also as someone who possesses strong willingness to contribute to global community’s need for potable water. I am delighted that I have secured admission for my graduate studies (MS and PhD) in some of the world’s leading universities which include Stanford University, Cornell Univerity, UIUC and few others. I have chosen to study further at Stanford University because of their specialised program on water mechanics and hydrology that overlaps extremely well with my aspirations.

Belonging to
the Indian setting where more than eighty percent of the population is solely dependent on the safety & reliability of ground water for drinking, I realise and feel strongly for the need of limiting human exposure to pollutants and remediation & hazardous substance control and thus creating a more secure water environment. It is this passion for enhancing the quality and availability of our most precious resource (water) and an equivalent passion for scientific research to understand the physical nature of the flow environment that makes me very excited at the possibility of being able to evolve comprehensive basis for water related phenomena that has important consequences for evading the water crisis. In my professional career, I look forward to contributing to these paramount needs for clean drinking water in the role of a water-quality scientist. At Stanford University, I have secured admission in their Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology program. I have made the particular choice of switching from Mechanical Engineering to this specialised & much renowned program because it will

help
me direct my proactive efforts towards the overarching goal of improving the quality and sustainability of the world’s water environment. I therefore believe that there is a very strong alignment of my professional as well as career goals with Rotary’s focus area of ‘Water and Sanitation’.

I wish to contribute innovative solutions and approaches to a sustainable and safer water environment: for both natural systems including surface waters, ground water, estuaries, wetlands and man-made systems like waste-water treatment plants, drinking water supplies, hydroelectric power plants etc. I personally enjoy relating the principles of physics and mathematics to applications in the domain of fluid flows. My decision to pursue research in the field of water environment has been reaffirmed by my stimulating and intellectually challenging research projects in France, USA and my home institution revolving around physics of water and also by my life in one of the world’s fast developing nations that constantly faces challenge with respect to potable water availability.

I not only see myself in the capacity of a water-quality scientist, but I also envisage myself employing my scientific research and quantitative skills by working closely with the industry as well as national, state and municipal governments on initiatives that often require scientific consulting for water ecosystem management and pollution prevention. My international experiences have made me realise the importance of research collaborations, outreach and service, and I will make serious attempts to inculcate these positively in my scientific career.

I also see myself as a positive role model of a teacher. I recognise the need for healthy knowledge dissemination at all levels of education and expect to continue to teach throughout my graduate and professional careers. During my stay at Stanford University, I envisage collaborating with faculty and colleagues in other departments and also beyond the university so that I can gain by learning social, political & economic angles to the problems of water crisis.

I am committed to this goal that lies ahead of me and will sincerely make efforts to contribute to our global community by giving it a more reliable water environment, by not only suggesting innovative alternatives to water usage but also scientific ways to reduce its usage and conserving the extant water sources. If I could achieve these and contribute to saving lives at the mass scale through ensuring large scale hygienic drinking water availability, I strongly believe that I will have truly lived my part. I also believe that this grant in the form of Rotary’s Global Grants Scholarship will have a very important part to play in helping me achieve what I strive for and in substantially enhancing my prospects as a graduate researcher and my professional career. It will not only help me fund my Master’s degree expenses (in part
of the total expense of
INR 60,00,000) but I also see this as a matter of privilege to become part of the community of scholars funded by Rotary.

A willingness to gain and share newer perspectives, adaptability, sincerity, and other myriad of experiences and most importantly a yearning desire to learn are what I plan and promise to take along as a graduate student to Stanford University and hence consider that I am a fit candidate for the esteemed Global Grants Scholarship. I am optimistic that I will be able to live up to the expectations of the Rotarians and the community at large.
Sincerely and most thankfully,
Saksham Gakhar

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Regards,

President Hari Sharma

Rotary Club of Mumbai Salt City.

We meet every Friday at 8.00 pm at EUROKIDS Pre-school, Mulund (W) (opp Chedda Petrol Pump)

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