The inaugural day of the Inter-college Youth Festival of Ranchi University (RU) witnessed remarkable show of talent by the participating students and enthusiasm of the organizing committee at the Aryabhatta Auditorium of the Ranchi University on Friday.
About 200 students are participating in the 3-day fest organized for students of 14 colleges under Ranchi University. Students participated actively, both as contestants and audience, cheering for their respective colleges.The Chief Guest for the inauguration ceremony of the festival was Professor l N Bhagat, Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University. Guests of honour included Professor M Raziuddin, pro Vice Chancellor of Ranchi University and Amar Kumar Choudhary, Registrar, Ranchi University.
"We are glad to say that the students are passionately participating and performing in the competitions. They possess immense talent. We hope the next two days are even better," said a faculty member. The faculty members also encouraged the students during the competitions.
"Even though we have our exams going on, I came for the competition because I want our college to win. Also, this is my last year and so I wish to grab the first prize this time as I won second place last year." said Urvarshi Jalan, MA, semester 3 student from Ranchi women's college, who participated in collage making competition.
The fest broadly consists of 3 areas of events- fine arts, literary and cultural. The faculty has been divided accordingly to look after into the events. Winners of the events will be sent to represent RU in the East Zone University Fest scheduled for January 2015.The first day had 10 events scheduled for the students, namely, collage making, solo classical vocal, debate, Indian light vocal, poster making, elocution, classical instrument solo, quiz, group song and cartooning.