Kota student awarded with Bal Shakti Puraskar

Jaipur: Yash Mishra, a student of Class IX in

Kota

, has been felicitated with Bal Shakti Puraskar 2020 by president Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi on January 22.

Son of an engineer, Yash has won more than 400 rewards and 200 medals in various national and international competitive examinations which made him eligible for the award. He is a resident of Odisha and is currently studying in Kota in Nucleus Education coaching centre.

Among his recent achievements, Mishra won a Gold in Singapore Asian Mathematics Olympiad, secured Rank-1 in International Olympiad of Mathematics in which 24 lakh students had participated, selected for all-paid educational trip of UK and won a gold medal in N.S.W Mathematical Olympiad. He expressed pleasure after winning the award and said that he will work for the upliftment of the nation in future.