The 24th annual All India Kamla Jeevan Inter school Hindi debates were held in the Doon school on October 5 and 6. Eight schools took part in the competition from all over India.
These were RIMC, Dehradun,Welham Boys Dehradun, Welham Girls, Dehradun, The Doon School, Unison World School, Scindia School Gwalior, Mayo College Girls School and MGD, Jaipur.
The competition, which concluded last evening, was held between two pools and each pool had 4 teams. The Doon School Dehradun and Mayo College girls school, Ajmer won all the three debates of their respective pools and qualified for the final rounds of the debate. The topic of the debate in the final round was
“Abhivyakti kee seemayen sthapit karna anuchit hai.” The Doon school expressed their views for the motion while Mayo girls expressed themselves against the motion. The Doon school emerged winners with Ritesh Shinde of the Doon school winning the best speaker in the final round of the debate. Saurabh Shukla from RIMC, Dehradun, was adjudged the best overall speaker of the competition.
Dr. Peter Mclaughlin , Headmaster of the Doon School was the chief guest and gave away the prizes. A lot of effort was put in by the boys of the Doon school and their master incharge, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla.
Himanshu Poddar and Chaitanya Fatehpuriya were the head of the organising committee of the Kamla Jeevan inter school Hindi debates and turned it into one of the most successfully held school events.