National Election Quiz 2018 attracts over13.63 lakh students

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New Delhi : The National Election Quiz 2018 (NEQ 2018), organized by the Election Commission of India (ECI) covering the entire country, has attracted a record participation of 13,63,982 students from 38,160 schools. With the huge participation, the NEQ 2018 lays claim to the feat of being the world’s largest Inter-School Quiz on Elections.

The marathon quiz programme began in November 2017. It had six fiercely contested zonal level episodes culminating in the grand finale in New Delhi on March 11, 2018. Winning teams from the six zones, Manipur, Puducherry, Goa, Delhi, Jharkhand and Jammu & Kashmir, contested for the prestigious trophy in the finale. Several intra-school, district and state rounds were held earlier to select zonal level contestants with the help of state education authorities.

The trophy of the NEQ-2018 has been lifted by Madhur Jain and Aditya Kumar of the DPS, Ranchi, Jharkhand. The first runner up position was sealed by St. Patrick Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Puducherry, represented by V Vishnu Priya and R Mithun Krishna. Shangker Singh Laishram and Ashmaan Mainali of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Senapati, Manipur, emerged the second runners up. The grand finale was  anchored by the renowned quiz master Vikram Joshi.

The grand prize of the NEQ 2018 carried a cash award of Rs 1,00,000. The first runner up team gets Rs 80,000 and the second runner up Rs 60,000. The other three finalist teams took home the cash purse of Rs 50,000. An audience response round was one of the features in each zonal episode that ensured popular response to the quiz programmes. Attractive prizes were given away by the ECI to the first 50 correct responses from the audience.