The Chhattisgarh round of the Reserve Bank of India Quiz (RBIQ) was organised by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Raipur office at the auditorium of Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) here on Monday.
Introduced by RBI in the year 2012, RBIQ aims at creating awareness on financial literacy and to increase the knowledge of young student community about subjects like banking and finance, RBI, other banking institutions, economics, current affairs, events and personalities.
The Chhattisgarh round of the quiz received a very good response from schools all over the State and more than 70 teams participated in the preliminary rounds.
While addressing the participants as chief guest for the event, RSU Vice-Chancellor Dr Sheo Kumar Pandey highlighted the role played by television in promoting modern day quizzing.
He appreciated the efforts made by RBI and also posed two quiz questions to the participants. Dr Sanjeev Sharma, General Manager and Officer-in-Charge RBI, Raipur, in his welcome address outlined the financial literacy endeavours of RBI of which RBIQ was an important component.
He also emphasized upon the important role played by financial literacy in the financial inclusion programs of RBI.
Sharma mentioned that in India, quizzing had a long tradition and perhaps the first such reference was to be found in the Mahabharata in “Yaksha Prashna”.
Dr Ashish Tripathi, from the renowned quizzing company, M/s GreyCaps Private limited, was the quiz master for the event.
Six teams qualified for the final round: DPS, Bhilai, DPS, Raipur, Jain International School, Bilaspur, Holy Hearts Educational Academy, Raipur, Bhavan’s RK Sarda Vidya Mandir and Krishna Public School Dunda, Raipur.
After six nail-biting rounds of quizzing, the team from Krishna Public School Dunda (Raipur), having Mukund Choudhary and Jai Goswami, emerged as the winner.
The winning teams were given a trophy, attractive prizes and mementos from the RBI.
The winning teams will move to the West Zone Finals that will be held in Mumbai in the month of November. Thereafter the winners of each zone would qualify for the National finals.