Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 5: The team of Balbir Singh, Abhinandan Singh and Saurabh Kohli, from Govt. College of Engineering and Technology bagged the First Prize and lifted the Dr. Surinder Sharma Memorial Trophy in the Quiz Competition, organized by the Department of Students Welfare, University of Jammu under the ongoing “Display Your Talent” 2012-13, here today.
The team of Kanwal Singh and Kuljeet Singh from the Department of History, University of Jammu, while the team of Anshul Gupta, Sahil Randhawa, and Ajayshree Singh Sambyal from Govt. MAM College, were adjudged as Second and Third, respectively.
It may be mentioned here that the University lost Dr. Surinder Sharma, a dynamic officer of the University in the prime of his youth. The trophy for the best team in Quiz has been instituted by the University in his loving memory.
The final Quiz was Oral one having questions from General Knowledge, Science, History, Sports, Culture as well as Audio and Video rounds.Dr. Madhulika from the School of Bio-Technology, acted as the Quiz Master while Vaibhav Sharma, Ajit Verma, acted as the scorers.
Prof Jasbir Singh, Chairman, Campus Cultural Committee, was the chief guest on this occasion.
In his address Prof. Singh complimented the prize winners and eulogized the efforts of Prof. N.K. Tripathi, Dean Students Welfare, for providing suitable platform to the students to exhibit their talent.
Among others, Prof. Neeru Sharma, Co-Chairperson, Campus Cultural Committee, Nidhi Kaila, Harmeet Kour, Divya Mahajan, Nitian Sharma and Deepak Singh, were present on this occasion.
The proceedings of the programme were conducted by Anshu Bala.