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HERITAGE NEWS
NATIONAL SEMI-
INTACH HERITAGE QUIZ 2020 FINALS AND NATIONAL
The Heritage Education and Kurukshetra, Gurgaon, Pune, FINALS
Communication Service (HECS) Nashik, Assam State, Dehradun,
Heritage Quiz 2020
Division of INTACH in collaboration Allahabad, Jammu, Chandannagar,
The National Semi Finals and Finals
with INTACH Chapters spread across Nagaland (Dimapur), Ahmedabad,
were conducted on the 6th, 7th and
the country conducted the Heritage Vadodara, Nagpur, Kolkata, East
8th of January 2021, as a webinar. HECS
Quiz this year online due to the Godavari, Kadapa, Machilipatnam, with the support of Cradle Solutions
ongoing pandemic. Guntur, Mahabubnagar, Khammam, conducted these rounds, which saw semi
Hyderabad, Calicut, Cochin, fi nalists teams from across the country
The Heritage Quiz features questions
Trivandrum, Thanjavur, Bhagalpur, participating.
on India’s built, natural, material and
Balasore, Udaipur, Marwar – Jodhpur, The fi rst semi fi nal on the 6th of January
living heritage along with INTACH
Bikaner, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Orchha, saw Hollotoli School, Dimapur, Army
and seeks to acquaint students Public School, Beas, Anand Niketan
Mahasamund and Raipur.
with the importance of being aware School, Ahmedabad and St. Anthony
of India’s rich heritage in order to Apart from these cities, city level School, Udaipur competing. The winner
protect and preserve it. round were also conducted by of the fi rst semi fi nal was Hollotoli School,
HECS in collaboration with Cradle Dimapur
The quiz is envisaged as a learning
Solutions conducted the Quiz in The second semi fi nal on the same day
experience for students and through
Delhi – NCR, Lucknow, Chandigarh, saw the participation of teams from
each quiz, knowledge about INTACH Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Delhi,
Mumbai, Jaipur and Bangalore.
and its scope of work in the fi eld MGM Central Public School, Trivandrum,
is shared with the students to The city winners from these rounds Mahesh Sri Ramakrishna Ashram
encourage the spirit of volunteerism were then invited for the National Vidyalaya, Hooghly, Presidency School,
R.T. Nagar, Bangalore and Sri Satya Sai
and activism in them. Eliminator Round which was held
Vidyalaya from Jamnagar. This round was
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th
on 17 and 18 December 2020,
Around 50 city chapters conducted won by Sri Satya Sai Vidyalaya, Jamnagar.
through Zoom portal.
the quiz in their respective cities and The third semi fi nals was held on 7th
surrounding regions. The Chapters Each eliminator round had 5 teams January, in which the following teams
who conducted the quiz online which was distributed zone wise. Out participated – Centre Point School, Katol
this year are- Varanasi, Ambala, of the fi ve teams – 2 teams qualifi ed Road, Nagpur, Little Angels High School,
Gwalior, PKR Jain Public School, Ambala
Jamnagar, Jalandhar, Malerkotla, for the National Final which was held
and Akshara Public School, Kakinada
Patiala, Faridkot, Belagavi, in the fi rst week of January 2021. from East Godavari. The team from Centre
Point School, Katol Road, Nagpur was
declared the winner of this round.
The fourth semi fi nal was held on the
same day teams from Teja Vidyalaya,
Kodad, Jodhamal Public School, Jammu,
RR School, Khammam, Sunbeam School,
Lahartara, Varanasi and Jayshree Periwal
High School, Jaipur participated in
this round. This round was won by Teja
Jodhpur
Cochin Vidyalaya Kodad.
The national fi nal of the quiz was held
on 8th January. The fi nalists got the
following rank:
Sri Satya Sai Vidyalaya, Jamnagar – First
Centre Point School, Katol Road, Nagpur
– Second
Teja Vidyalaya, Kodad – Third
Hollotoli School, Dimapur – Fourth
Guntur Eliminator Round
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