NICE 2022: IIT Delhi bags first position in north-zone final round

Harshul Sagar and Arush Utkarsh of IIT Delhi bagged the first position in NICE 2022. Shashwat Saxena and Jatin Agarwal of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) were named the first runners-up followed by Shashwat Sanjeev and Yuvraj Singh of Hansraj College, Delhi, who stood in the third place.

NICE 2022: IIT Delhi bags first position in north-zone final round

Two students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have been declared the winners of the North Zone Finals Round of the National Inter-college Crossword Expedition (NICE 22). Harshul Sagar and Arush Utkarsh of IIT Delhi bagged the first position in NICE 2022.

Shashwat Saxena and Jatin Agarwal of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) were named the first runners-up followed by Shashwat Sanjeev and Yuvraj Singh of Hansraj College, Delhi, who stood in the third place.

IIT Delhi scored 100 points followed by JIIT securing 40 points and Hansraj College with 35 points. Altogether, 50 teams had qualified for the North Zonal Round of which three teams have qualified for the National Grand Finale to be held in Delhi in August this year.

The event was conducted at VIPS-TC College of Engineering, Delhi on June 20, 2022.

NICE 22 is a national-level inter-college three-stage contest conducted in a hybrid online-offline mode. It is jointly organised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the University Grant Commission (UGC) with the Extra-C, a civil-society initiative based in Patna, as part of the celebrations of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.’

“The objective is to showcase India's rich learning heritage by leveraging the beautiful mind game of crosswords. The participants were shortlisted based on their cumulative scores in the online round held on four successive Sundays in April on www.crypticsingh.com,” a senior official of the Extra-C, as reported by TOI.

The Zonal Finals were onstage and in PowerPoint format. It was conducted by Ramki Krishnan, six-time champion of the Indian Crossword League. 

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