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The winning teams Sungrace
High School (2nd runners up), The Cathedral Vidhya School (Winners)
and City International School (1st runners up) with the quiz master
and senior officials from RBI, Pune
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The
annual all-India Inter-School RBI financial quiz (RBIQ) for Pune Centre was
held at the MES Auditorium, Kothrud, Pune on August 11, 2014. The Quiz launched
by the Reserve Bank of India in 2012, is an effort of the Reserve Bank towards
spreading awareness about financial matters, especially among children. Organized
for the third year in a row, RBIQ this year saw participation from 84 schools
located in Pune area, across all boards of education. Shri Lloyd Saldanha was
the quizmaster.
2 In her inaugural address Smt. Meena
Hemchandra, Principal Chief General Manager, College of Agricultural Banking,
RBI, Pune, spoke about the initiatives taken by RBI in the sphere of financial
literacy. She emphasized the importance of financial education and exhorted
students to be aware of financial matters as it was going to be part of their
everyday life.
3 Among the six teams which qualified
for the final round, Master Nihal Dalal and Master Jeh Patel of The Cathedral
Vidhya School, Lonavala, emerged as winners. They will now move to the Zonal
finals scheduled at Mumbai on November 10, 2014. Miss Sanjana Rai and Master Dibyanshu Gautam of City
International School, Pimpri were the first runners up while Miss Sheetal
Potale and Master Devendra Kondhalkar of Sungrace High School, Pune, were the
second runners up.
4 Shri Shyam Aggarwal, Chief Editor, Aaj
ka Anand gave away the prizes to the winners.
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