The students of loyola School proved their mettle in the national quiz, ‘Tax Your Brain’ organised by NDTV and supported by the Directorate of Income Tax.
The team led by class XI Commerce students Shubham Agarwal and KC Sachin stood fourth in the coveted contest. The team vied with about 1800 teams across 32 cities in the country. The loyola students ended up the fourth position and won a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh.
The show was hosted by former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly. The brand new quiz show for school students from class IX to XII aims is to reach out to the maximum number of people and evoke their interest in economy, finance and taxation and to make a topic easy to understand and fun through an entertaining quiz show by the Income Tax Department.
“The quiz contest was quite interesting and we are happy to give our best performance in it. The questions were based on the economy and taxes. We were pitted with the best teams across the country. The questions were quite interesting and nerve racking,” said Shubham.
Out of 170 teams from Jharkhand, two teams each from loyola School and DPS, Bokaro could reach the city finals where Shubham and Sachin's team were the winners.
The four finals along with loyola School were Sunbeam School, Varanasi and Thakur Public School, Mumbai and Fergusson Junior College, Pune. Fergusson Junior College finished as the winner followed by Thakur Public School and Sunbeam Varanasi.
loyola School principal Father Sebastian Puthenpura congratulated the team and encouraged them to continue the good performance.