As a part of the celebration of 75 years of Independence i.e. the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
and the COVID-19 Awareness Campaigns, the Regional Coordinating Institute for Unnat Bharat
Abhiyan (UBA) unit, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) conducted various
competitions during last few months.
In order to spread awareness regarding the COVID-19 pandemic among the locals, the UBA
RCI, IIT Guwahati organized a “COVID-19 Awareness Video & Poster Making Competition in Regional Languages” in the month of June-2021.
The event had a huge number of participation from the four states viz. Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland, which are part of UBA Regional Coordinating Institute, IIT Guwahati. The Competitions were organised for Video Making and Poster Making. Under the guidance of Prof. Debendra Chandra Baruah, Coordinator UBA and Dr. Amiya Kumar Das, Programme Coordinator, NSS, Tezpur University, five entries were submitted from Tezpur University out of which three entries bagged prizes in the competitions.
As for the Video making competitions, Tezpur University secured the 2nd and the 3rd Position. NSS Volunteer Neha Bhattacharya bagged the 2nd Prize for her individual Video entry and the
3rd Prize was for a Team Video secured by NSS Volunteers Akash Raj, Anwesha Bhattacharya,
Arjun Roy, Niharika Dev Choudhury, and Ankit Kumar. Whereas, for the Poster Making
Competition, NSS Volunteer Arjun Roy bagged the 1st Prize for his individual Poster entry.
All the winners received memento, certificates and handsome cash prizes from the RCI,UBA,
IIT Guwahati.