Ganga Quest - Online Quiz for students

Ganga Quest is a national bilingual (Hindi and English) online quiz on Ganga being conducted by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), an authority under the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India. NMCG has the mandate for the effective implementation of NamamiGange Program and Ganga Quest is under its Public Outreach activities.

TREE Craze Foundation (TCF), a not for profit organization committed to Ganga, Rivers, and Environment is its executive partner for Ganga Quest. The quiz is designed, conceptualized, and developed by TCF. Wildlife Institute of India (WII), a premier internationally acclaimed institute on wildlife research and management has supported TCF in development of question banks especially for biodiversity conservation theme. WII is also providing its publications in the knowledge kit being awarded to the first 100 participants. GIZ (The Deutsche The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), a German development agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation, is also providing the materials prepared under its 'Ganga Box' program for knowledge kit. Also, GIZ will organize knowledge activities through international experts for schools with maximum participation. The development and awards of Ganga Quest is sponsored by VA Tech Wabag, an Indian multinational company, pioneering in sustainable water solutions.

Eligibility

Eligibility: Any Indian citizen who is residing in the country and has attained the age of 10 years as on 31st March’2020 is eligible to participate in the contest.

Ganga Quest registration will start from 7th April 2020.

Ganga Quest will begin from 22nd April 2020, World Earth Day

This Quiz will end on 22ndMay 2020, International Day for Biodiversity

Prize ceremony scheduled on 5th of June, World Environment Day

Rules

Rules

Ganga Quest 2019 is a multiple choice questionnaire having three rounds of 10 questions each. The first two rounds are the qualifying rounds, and winners are decided based on the performance in third round.

Structure of Ganga Quest: 

Ganga Quest is carefully organized in three rounds where first two rounds are qualifying rounds with Round III as the main round for selecting winners. Round I explores the attitude orientation of participants for rivers with questions focused on three main objectives – understanding people river connect, assessing sensitivity, and analyzing ownership towards the rivers. Round II assesses the overall knowledge on environment, rivers, and Ganga. Round II had an informative feedback mechanism in place, as for every correct/wrong answer, interesting facts related to the question were shared with the participants to enhance their knowledge. Round III was a completely competitive round where accuracy and time taken to complete the round was assessed to identify the winners. The participants were asked to select 2 themes out of 7 themes, in which the questions were framed.

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