New York: In February 2026, BITS Pilani announced a landmark $ 4 million donation from US-based alumnus Chand P Garg of the 1968 batch and his wife Manju Garg, marking the highest individual contribution ever made by an alumnus to the institute.
Chand Garg, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and a seasoned entrepreneur in international trade, credited his education at the institute as the foundation of his professional success and lifelong learning.
Through their contribution, Chand and Manju Garg aim to support 16 meritorious students every year, with a special focus on girls from financially constrained backgrounds, enabling them to pursue and complete their education at BITS Pilani.
Describing the Institute as the “starting point” of his journey, Garg expressed hope that deserving students would benefit from the same transformative opportunities that shaped his life.
Sharing his motivation, Chand P Garg said he felt deeply indebted to BITS Pilani. “Whatever I could achieve in life, it started from the education I received at this very place, Pilani. Through this donation, my wife and I believe that we are just relaying the means to ensure that deserving students with financial need can experience the same transformative education that shaped my journey,” he said.
The donation has pushed the institute’s endowment corpus past $34 million as BITS Pilani works toward building a $100 million endowment fund, the first such initiative by a non-government higher education institution in India.
BITS Pilani said the endowment fund is intended to strengthen faculty recruitment, expand research capacity, support student scholarships, and enhance international academic engagement as part of the institute’s efforts to improve its global standing.
