Bihar Welder's IITian Son bags One-Crore Microsoft Job Package

This 21-year-old from IIT Kharagpur will soon earn over a crore per year at Microsoft in Silicon Valley. Vatsalya Singh Chauhan is from a small village in Bihar, and his father is a welder.

"I was offered Rs. 1.02 crore per annum salary package by Microsoft and I will be joining in October this year," he told PTI.

Vatsalya's father, Chandra Kant Singh Chauhan said, "My 20-year-long dedication has yielded results and my dream has come true. My son is now going abroad and I want him to make India proud abroad."

Chandra Kant has five other children. He has now sent one of his daughters to Kota to prepare for the medical entrance exam.

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