As part of its objective to spread financial literacy among the young school children, Reserve Bank of India, Bhopal organised a quiz programme, RBIQ at Samanvay Bhawan, Apex Bank, Bhopal here on Friday.
Teams from various schools from Bhopal participated in the quiz contest. The program was inaugurated by Ajay Michyari, Regional Director, RBI Bhopal.
While addressing the students Michyari stressed that the idea behind the quiz was to demystify Reserve Bank of India and to spread financial education among the school students.
The quiz was conducted by a renowned quiz master Ashish, from Greycaps Private India ltd.
As many as 110 teams from 38 schools of the city participated in the
RBIQ 2015.
After the pre-Quarter Final round, six teams
including Carmel Convent Senior Sec School BHEl, St Joseph’s Co-ed School, The Sanskaar Valley School, Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Delhi Public School Neelbad and Shree Bhavans Bharti Public School qualified for the Quarter final round.
Notably, the team from Carmel Convent Senior Secondary School comprising Mansha Makkad and Nandana Varshney emerged as winner in the quarter final.
The winning team will participate in the zonal finals to be held during November, 2015 at Mumbai.
During the break between pre quarter final and quarter final round, a short and entertaining quiz was also held for the audience and on-the-spot prizes handed over to those giving the correct answers.
The programme elicited active participation from schools, received overwhelming response from the audience.
ADM RBI, Bhopal Ajay Paliwal informed that Carmel Convent team is selected to travel to Mumbai for Semi finals.
He also informed that the travelling and accommodation of the team travelling to Mumbai for Nationals will be paid by RBI.