Top two teams from each zone -- North, South, East, West and Northeast -- will progress to the final stage of the competition.
The teams in five zones:
North Zone (Dec 22-27 in Greater Noida, UP): Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand
South Zone (Dec 19-27 in Trichy, Tamil Nadu): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Telengana
East Zone (Dec 22-27 in Nadia, West Bengal): West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Odisha, Railways, Sikkim
Northeast Zone (Dec 18-23 in Kokrajhar, Assam): Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh.
