Rudra-Savitri Darbhanga Mind Fest 2022


The Rudra Savitri Darbhanga Mind Fest was held on 3rd and 4th November, 2022 as an inaugural event of the recently built Darbhanga Auditorium, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga.

The two-day event saw participation from over 130 government and private schools. Over 2000 school students participated in 9 different contests like India Quiz, General Quiz, Mental Ability Test, Spelling Bee, Creative Writing - Hindi, Creative Writing - English, Cloth Painting, Paper Painting and Cryptic Crossword.

Conceptualised by senior IAS officer and Development Commissioner (Govt. of Bihar), Dr Vivek Kumar Singh, the immensely successful fest will now be an annual event, designed primarily for school students.

The fest was graced by the following dignitaries who came to encourage the students from all over the state.

Mr. Sanjay Jha - Chief Guest - Water Resources and Information & Public Relations Minister, Govt. Of Bihar

Dr. Vivek Kumar Singh, IAS - Development Commissioner, Govt. of Bihar

Mr. Santosh K Mall, IAS - MD, BELTRON, Govt. of Bihar

Dr. Manish Kumar, IAS - Commissioner, Darbhanga Division

Mr. Rahul Kunar, IAS - CEO, Jeevika, Govt. of Bihar

Mr. Rajiv Raushan, IAS - DM, Darbhanga

Dr. S P Singh - Former Vice-chancellor, Lalit Narayan Mithila University & Aryabhatta Knowledge University

Mr. Arvind Verma, IAS - DM, Madhubani

Mr. Yogendra Singh, IAS - DM, Samastipur

Ms. Amrisha Bains, IAS - DDC, Darbhanga

Mr. Sparsh Gupta, IAS - SDO, Darbhanga Sadar

Mr. Samar Bahadur Singh - DEO, Darbhanga

Educationists, intellectuals, and parents of students coming from all over the district encouraged and blessed the participants.

The list of winners are as follows –

PRIZE LIST I RUDRA SAVITRI DARBHANGA MIND FEST - 2022

S.No. Event Category 3rd 2nd 1st
1 Spelling Bee/ English Class 6 to 8 Chanchal Kumari (Madonna English School) Saraswati
(Madonna English School) 		Laxmi
(Madonna English School)
2 Spelling Bee/ English Class 9 to 12 Arman Karn
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Jyoti Bharti
(Harrow English School) 		Akshay Vaisya
(Delhi Public School)
3 Spelling Bee/ Hindi Class 6 to 8 Happy Raj
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Chanchal Kumari
(Madonna English School) 		Laxmi
(Madonna English School)
4 Spelling Bee/ Hindi Class 9 to 12 Jyoti Bharti
(Harrow English School) 		Priya Raj
(Woodbine Modern School) 		Vivek Raj
(Woodbine Modern School)
5 Crossword Open Anurag Jha, Ayush Choudhary, Swapanalli Thiyam Kolay
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Unnati Soumya Jha, Nitesh Anand, Alok Kumar Giri
(Madonna English School) 		Pankaj Kumar, Shubham Kumar, Aditya Raj
(Nalanda College of Engineering, Chandi)
6 Creative Writing/ English Class 6 to 8 Aditi Ranjan
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Chanchal Kumari
(Madonna English School) 		Sneha Raj
(Darbhanga Public School)
7 Creative Writing/ English Class 9 to 12 Shreya
(Cinderella English School) 		Trisha Srivastava
(Madonna English School) 		Ayush Kumar
(Darbhanga Public School)
8 Creative Writing/ Hindi Class 6 to 8 Kumari Aakanksha
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Baibhav Jha
(M.S. South Kasraur) 		Chanchal Kumari
(Madonna English School)
9 Creative Writing/ Hindi Class 9 to 12 Anushka Adeti
(Public School, Darbhanga) 		Ankita Verma
(Public School, Darbhanga) 		Amrita Kumari
(U.M.S. Dekuli)
10 India Quiz Open Ayush Kumar, Adnan Khalid, Anurag Jha
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Radha Raman, Ayush Vinayak, Utsav Kumar
(Madonna English School) 		Moniam Singh, Sonam Singh, Avishek Ambar
(Teachers of Cinderella English School)
11 Mental Ability Test Class 6 to 8 Kumar Shivansh
(Madonna English School) 		Saksham Acharya
(U.H.S. Rampur DIH) 		Nilesh Naman
(Darbhanga Jr. Public School)
12 Mental Ability Test Class 9 to 12 Shivam Kumar
(Delhi Public School, Kadirabad) 		Pratyush Kumar Jha
(Mount Summer School) 		Eadha Raman
(Madonna English School)
13 Painting Class 6 to 8 Jeeya Kumari
(Delhi Public School, Kadirabad) 		Antareep Das
(Mount Carmel International School) 		Aanchal Kumari
(Public School, Darbhanga)
14 Painting Class 9 to 12 Shrawan Kumar
(+2 M.L. Academy) 		Ishan Anand
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Atul Kumar Sharma
Mount Summer Convent School
15 Cloth Painting All Kriti Kumari
(Kid Care School) 		Somnath Kumar
(Raj High School) 		Manjeet Kumar Mukhiya
(Bahera College, Benipur)
16 General Quiz Open Radha Raman, Ayush Vinayak, Utsav Kumar
(Madonna English School) 		Ayush Kumar, Adnan Khalid, Anurag Jha
(Darbhanga Public School) 		Arman Karn, Digvijay Pradhan, Ishan Anand
(Darbhanga Public School)
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