Koraput Team Wins State Level Quiz for Judicial Officers of Odisha

Cuttack, July 3: The Koraput team won the State Level Quiz for the Judicial Officers of Odisha and Gajapati and Sundergarh teams became the 1^st and 2^nd runners-up respectively. Prizes were distributed to the teams by Chief Justice Orissa High Court Dr. S. Muralidhar , Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo and Justice Chittaranjan Dash at a function held after the grand finale.

In his welcome address Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo said the Judicial Officers are constantly required to enhance their knowledge in every field and the High Court has taken several initiatives such as provision of laptops with internet connectivity, provision of law journals and books, creation of case law portal etc to enable them acquire knowledge. He said the quiz was conceived by the Chief Justice to enhance the interest of Judicial Officers and urged the District Judges to form groups of Judicial Officers for discussion and sharing of information on regular basis.

Chief Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar said ``while celebrating 75^th year of the High Court of Orissa a string of events have been organized, but the quizzes for the law students and the Judicial Officers have been the most enjoyable.’’

 He expressed satisfaction over the participation of good number of woman judicial officers. The Chief Justice expressed hope that such quiz competition will be organized every year and also shared his dream of seeing a quiz competition for judicial officers at the national level.

Celebrating the 75^th year of its establishment the High Court of Orissa organized the first ever State Level Quiz for the Judicial Officers of Odisha in collaboration with an expert organization QShala. The quiz was organized in 3 phases- 2 Preliminary Rounds, 6 Zonal Rounds and the Grand Finale.

At first, there were two online Preliminary Rounds common to all the 30 districts on 11^th June, 2023 where 432 Judicial Officers of various cadres participated individually. The top 3 winners of each district formed the team to represent the respective district in the Zonal Rounds.

For the Zonal Rounds 6 zones were formed with 1 Zonal Headquarter in each zone. Each zone included 5 districts.The zonal rounds of Jeypore (Zone-1), Berhampur (Zone-2) and Sambalpur (Zone-3) were held on 25^th June, 2023 and the zonal rounds of Angul (Zone-4), Balasore (Zone-5) and Cuttack (Zone-6) were held on 28^th June, 2023. The 5 district teams of each zone competed among themselves in the respective Zonal Rounds at Zonal Headquarters.

While Raghav Chakrabarty, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of QShala was the Quizmaster in the Preliminary and the Zonal Rounds, Sachin Ravi, the Co-Founder of QShala was the Quizmaster in the grand finale. The questions asked in the quiz were on the topics of Law, Politics and Social Studies from the lens of history, culture, music, movies, art and technology.