The Kongu Vellalar Institute of Technology Trust (KVITT) offered Rs 3.98 cr academic excellence awards to meritorious students of all 7 educational institutions of it at a function held in the Kongu Engineering College (KEC) Perundurai on Saturday. The top 5% of students in every year were given the cash awards. B.Adhavan, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Coimbatore was the chief guest of the function. The trust functionaries Dr.R.Kumaraswamy, P.Sathiyamoorthy, K.V.Ravishankar, Correspondents, Principals of all the institutions, and trust members were present.