Mother's International School, MVN win CCCC 2016 city rounds

Students of Mother's International School in Delhi and Faridabad's Modern Vidya Niketan (MVN) today won city rounds of the all-India inter-school CBSE Cryptic Crossword Contest (CCCC) 2016.
Divya Vaid and Arav Agarwal of Mother's International School and Ashim Kumar Dubey and Abhay Kanwar of MVN were declared winners of the Delhi and Gurgaon city rounds, respectively, of the contest, according to the organisers.
While Devum Pruthi and Kheelit Pruthi of Cambridge Foundation School came second in the Delhi round, Anushka Srivastava and Himal Pandita of Delhi Public School, Sector 45, Gurgaon were the runners-up in the Gurgaon round.
A total of 70 teams participated in the Delhi round held at Salwan Public School in Rajinder Nagar and event at Gurgaon was hosted by Shiv Nadar School with the participation of 25 school teams.

The remaining two city rounds in the NCR are scheduled to be held tomorrow at Amity International School in Vasundhara Sector 6 and Army Public School at Sector 37, Noida.
The CCCC 2016 was launched at DPS of Ranchi on April 18 following an April 5 circular by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) along with its nationwide schedule.
The contest is being conducted in two stages. In the preliminary round, which is underway, the contest will be held across 37 cities and towns in India. The winners from these rounds will then converge in the national capital for the year-end Grand Finale.

The contest is into its third year. The CCCC 2015 saw participation from about 800 schools across the country.