chandigarh for three years running tricity students have stood first in the jointentrance examination advanced for seats at the prestigious indian institutes of technology iits last year it was sarvesh mehtani and in 2018 its his friend pranav goyal in 2016 the honour went to bhavesh dhingraonly two students from the tricity of chandigarh panchkula and mohali finished in top 10 in the results that came out on sunday the number of tricity students in top 100 also fell to four from eight last year all three tricity students in top 100 this year want to join iitbombay and pursue computer science and software engineeringtopper pranav goyal is from chandigarhs sector 15 while neelaryan gupta who finished second in the tricity with air 10 belongs to zirakpur in mohali district sahil sood with rank 36 is third in the tricity while the fourth position goes to aneesh garg with air 52 son of a teacher and an additional director general in the telecom ministry aneesh wants to be a software engineer and his father is his role model in the central board of secondary education cbse class xii examinations he scored 964 with a perfect 100 in chemistry he has qualified for various science olympiadsin 2016 shivam garg allindia rank 94 was the only other tricity student besides dhingra in top 100 the tally had improved to eight in 2017 along with the bonus of top three slots the other ranks from 2017 were 30 32 59 66 and 68 in 2015 four local students made it to the elite bracket while the 2014 tally was three with ranks 6 71 and 80