Ritwik Mallik and Prabhas Kumar of Class X won the City Round CBSE Cryptic Crossword Contest-2014.
The contest was held at DPS Bokaro on Tuesday for the students of Classes IX to XII, school authority informed. The contest was organised by CBSE in association with Extra-C (a civil society and a non-profit organization). A two-member team from across 14 schools participated in the Crossword Contest and solved the written cryptic crossword puzzle.
The DPS Bokaro team comprising Ritwik Mallik and Prabhas Kumar bagged the first position in the City Round and have made it to the National Round to be held in New Delhi in the month of December 2014. The team from Army Public School, Ramgarh, stood second. Dr. Hemlata S. Mohan, Director and Principal, DPS Bokaro congratulated the participants and appreciated the budding talents for their competitive effort. She appreciated this new initiative of CBSE and CBSE Chairman Vineet Joshi for imbibing the spirit of competition and helping students to sharpen their intellectual skills.