Print Olympiad 2022 – National Finale 

Ludhiana, August 25, 2022: The Grand National Finale of the Print Olympiad 2022 the First of its kind in the world is going to be held at the Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Haryana on the 5th of September, 2022 in the presence of eminent International Jury.  

Giving the details of the event, Prof. (Dr) TKS Lakshmi Priya said, “The 5th Print Olympiad 2022 is being organized successfully under the Visionary leadership and guidance of Prof. Kamal Mohan Chopra. His novel idea is to pick the best student among all the four zones (East, West, North and South) and award the Best with a First Prize of Rs.1,00,000/- to the ‘Top Print Student of India’. The regional level competition for each zone, to select ‘top student’ of the region, was held ‘online’ during the past few months. There were two preliminary tests where the registered students were given a set of 50 question with multiple choice answers (MCQ). Later the selected top 3 students of the region participated in the regional finale where these students were given 5 topics one each by different jury members and the students  were to speak extemporaneous, for a specific time, on any one of these of their choice. All these competitions were organized on Virtual platform.

Prof. Kamal Mohan Chopra, said all the four Regional Top students namely Vishwa Sree K, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Baddam Meghana Reddy, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Pinky Adak, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal and Dwayne James Mandy, PVG College of Eng. & Tech., Pune will be participating in the National Finale for the Print Olympiad at DCRUST which will be held physically in the presence of International Jury comprising of Peter Deckker, Sri Lanka, Prof. Dr. Anastasios Politis, Greece,  Karma Jurme, Yangzom, Bhutan, Tuti Rahaju Buntaran, Indonesia and Dr Rajendrakumar Anayath, India. The Top Print Student of India selected by the jury will be Awarded a Certificate and a Cash Prize of Rs. 1,00,000/- from the Offset Printers’ Association (OPA). 

It is the only competition of its kind in the world and is considered to be the India’s biggest talent hunt in Printing. Giving details of the competition, Anubhava Shiksharthi, Advisor of the Project said, the Curtain Raiser of the Print Olympiad 2022 was held at on 25th February, 2022 in Virtual mode. Since then 12 competitions of various levels were organize virtually platform and Seven universities/printing institutions and more than 10 eminent printing teachers from various parts of the country were involved to host the 5th edition of Print Olympiad. There were 16 neutral and qualified judges from India and abroad to select the top print student from each region from more than 789 registered students from various institutions across the country.