State level quiz competition held in IIT Guwahati

Guwahati, March 25, 2019:

The Election Quotient, the state level quiz competition, which was organized by the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer on last Sunday at Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Auditorium, IIT Guwahati, the participation of 107 teams were seen from across the length and breadth of the state.

The district level quizzes were organized by the election districts last week from which the two best teams were selected to represent the election district at the state level quiz.

Teams from Dhemaji, Tinsukia, Karimganj, Karbi Anglong, Udalguri, North Salmara, South Salmara, Charaideu, Lakhimpur, Dima Hasao, Dhubri participated among others. On-the-spot registration and online registration were done to encourage the maximum number of young voters to participate in the event.

This initiative was taken up by the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer to spread the awareness about electoral participation and ethical voting among the young voters.

Teams that participated were from Assam Engineering College, Tezpur University, Dhemaji College, University Law College, Gauhati University, Gauhati Medical College, Cotton University, National Law University, and IIT Guwahati competed for the top positions in the final stages.

The champions were Himangshu Sonowal and Sudarshan Goswami from National Law University while the next two positions went to Aditya Kumar and Himanshu Chaudhary (IIT, Guwahati) and Dipankar Deka and Plawan Sarma (Cotton University) respectively.

The Quiz was conducted by Dr. Upakul Sarmah, Assistant Registrar, Tezpur University. Pankaj Chakravarty- Deputy Secretary to Government of Assam and Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup district Kamal Kumar Baishya, Hajo Circle officer (attached) Arpana Sarma, State Election Icon Mr. Universe Golap Rabha were present in the event.