Felicitations and cash awards worth lakhs were showered upon the toppers and successful aspirants of the coaching institutes of Kota in the JEE Advanced 2016 and AIIMS 2016. Over the last couple of days, most of the big coaching institutes of Kota have organised their felicitation ceremonies to felicitate their toppers. 

Allen Career Institute, at its annual prize distribution ceremony held on Sunday, felicitated their toppers of JEE Advanced 2016 and AIIMS 2016 amidst a gala ceremony with song and dance performances by students and faculties. Cash awards of a total of Rs 87.20 lakh were given out for success in JEE Advanced 2016, with All India Topper of JEE Advanced 2016, Aman Bansal receiving Rs 21 lakh along with a medal. All India Rank (AIR) 2 Bhavesh Dhingra and AIR 3 Kunal Goyal in JEE Advanced were awarded medals and Rs 11 lakh each, while AIR 9 Gaurav Didwana and AIR 18 Rohan Garg were given cash prizes of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh respectively. Moreover, classroom students with ranks 21 to 100 were given Rs 1 lakh each. In Technical Study Scholarship, 25 students were awarded scholarships of Rs 1,500 each per month till they complete their B.Tech.

Allen also felicitated toppers of AIIMS 2016 with cash awards of Rs 49.05 lakhs. Naveen Maheshwari, Director, Allen Career Institute said that Nikhil Bajiya, AIR 2 in AIIMS 2016 was felicitated with a cash prize of Rs 3 lakh while other classroom students in Top 10 received cash prizes of 2 lakh each and Rs 21,000 each was awarded to the Distance Learning students in All India Top 10.

Vibrant Academy also felicitated its toppers with cash awards. Chief Guest Vishal Bansal, Inspector General of Police, Kota Range was the and Guest of Honor Dr Vijay Sardana, Superintendent of Maharao Bhim Singh Hospital, Kota gave away cash awards to the successful students at a felicitation ceremony. Narendra Awasthi of Vibrant said that while Rs 1.50 lakh was given to their student Rohit Chaudhary for grabbing All India Rank 14th in JEE Advanced 2016, Riya Singh was given Rs 51,000 for being the topper in the Girls category of JEE Advanced. Vibrant also gave away Rs 21,000 to its 5 students who bagged AIR Ranks in Top 50 Ranks and Rs 75,000 to one student who was ranked between Rank 50 and 100.

Resonance Eduventures Private Limited also gave cash awards of Rs 2 Lakh to their student, Utkarsh Gupta for scoring AIR Rank 17 in JEE Advanced 2016 and Rs 1 lakh each to Sarthak Vishnoi, Parth Shah and Meet Kathiria for grabbing AIR Rank 97, 91 and 60 respectively in JEE Advanced 2016. RK Verma, Managing Director, Resonance along with his parents CL Verma and Gulab bai, gave away cheques to the successful aspirants.

Bansal Classes, Kota felicitated its 5 Top Rankers, Sushant Rathi, Aakash Kapoor, Nikhil Kulkarni, Mankaran Singh and Mayanka with cash awards of Rs 51,000 each for achieving All India Rank 83, 95, 106, 157 and 512 respectively. VK Bansal, Chairman of Bansal Classes said that there is no shortcut to success and students should study without tension to achieve success.