Students hail from Chinamaya Vidyalaya, Hubballi
Manish H. Bhojedar and Vineet S. Hiremani of Chinmaya Vidyala, Hubballi, emerged as winners of the 17th edition of The Hindu Young World Quiz regional finals held here on Wednesday.
In the annual event held at Samskrutika Bhavan located at New Cotton Market, the team secured 51 points. They picked up after the first round, and increased it in the final round to bag the winners’ trophy and BSA Ladybird and Hercules bicycles.
Sutej R.T. and Saloni S.P. of SBI Officers Association Education Society’s English Medium School too started slow, faltered once, but managed to beat others to secure the second position to clinch the first runner-up trophy.
Siddharth Bhatt and J. Manoj of The Jindal Vidyamandir, Ballari, came next to them to bag the second runner-up trophy.
Last year’s champions from Lion’s English Medium School, Sirsi, Chinmay V. Hegde and Prajwal M. Yaji started off well to take lead in the first round, subsequently faltered twice with the buzzer to lose points and ended in the fourth position. Preetish and Shreesh of Chetan Public School, Hubballi, and Srujan S. K. and Shekhar Suman of Sainik School, Vijayapura, ended up in the fifth and sixth positions.
Commissioner of Hubballi Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) Major Siddhalingaih Hiremath, gave away trophies and gift hampers to the winners and finalists.
Lauding the efforts of The Hindu in organising the event, he said such programmes would help in instilling competitive spirit among the children.
Major Hiremath called upon the students to develop love for reading. “During the school days we have to read the maximum. Read newspapers, comics and read whatever interests you to develop reading habit”, he told the students.
A total of 230 teams of schools of north Karnataka participated in this programme, which is an integral part of The Hindu in School (THiS) initiative. After the preliminary round of written test, six teams made it to the final and played the quiz. Conducting the quiz in his typical style with peppy interventions, quizmaster V.V. Ramanan engaged the children throughout the event and gave away prizes to those among the audience who answered the questions correctly.
Sponsors
BSA Ladybird and Hercules is the national gift sponsor. This event was supported by KLE Technological University of Hubballi and BASE Educational Services Pvt.Ltd. was the regional sponsor. Other sponsors of the event were Swarna Groups of Hotels (food sponsor) and JBM Industries, Hubballi (gift sponsor) and Srikrishna Milks Pvt. Ltd(gift and beverages sponsor).
