Of the 2000 students across the country who had applied for the fellowship, only 57 were shortlisted. However, after final interviews, of the 57 only seven students from engineering institutions were awarded the prestigious fellowship.
Arjun Krishnamurthy is the one of the seven students to have bagged the fellowship and the only awardee to have been selected from Karnataka.
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