Inter-college debate competitions for award of Chancellor’s Prize held at Bhanja Bihar

Bhanja Bihar: Berhampur University (BU) organized inter-college debate competitions for the award of Chancellor’s Prize at the Senate Hall here in the campus on October 16, 17 and 18, 2017.

On the first day, Vice-Chancellor Prof. Rajendra Prasad Das along with P.G. Council Chairman Prof. Devi Prasanna Patnaik inaugurated the event.

Inter-college debate competition for Chancellor's Prize
underway at Senate Hall in Berhampur University

Following the inaugural meeting, inter-college debate competition in English for the award of Chancellor’s Prize was held. The topic for the competition was “Use of double standard in administration is unavoidable.” Debasish Biswal (Part-I, PG Department of Zoology, BU) was selected for the first position, while Anwesh Choudhuri (Vikram Dev Autonomous College, Jeypore) and Shruti Patro (Part-II, MBA Department, BU) shared the second position among 30 participants from different affiliated colleges and PG departments of the university. The competition was judged by Prof. R. N. Panda of English department, Dr. Sandhyarani Das of Economics department and Dr. G. S. Lall of Commerce department.

Inter-college debate competition in Odia for the award of Chancellor’s Prize took place on the second day. At least 30 students from different affiliated colleges participated in the competition on the topic “Indian Education System is an obstacle to rapid development”. Swati Samantray (PG Department of Chemistry, BU) was chosen for the first position while the second position was secured by Shubham Mahapatra (Khallikote Autonomous College). The judges were Prof. Prasanna Kumar Swain of Odia department, Dr. Balabhadra Tripathy of English department and Dr. Satyabrata Patro of IRPM department.

Inter-college debate competition for Pandit Nilakantha Das 

Prize underway at Senate Hall in Berhampur University

On the third day, inter-college debate competition in Odia for the award of Pandit Nilakantha Das Prize was held on “Cleanliness is the pedestal of Nationalism.” As many as 22 participants were evaluated by a jury comprising Prof. R. N. Panda of English department, Prof. Bhagaban Sahu of History department and Dr. Prasanna Kumar Dixit of Zoology department. Diptimayee Biswaranjan Sethy (Part-I, PG Department of J&MC, BU) came first in the competition while Swati Samantray (PG Department of Chemistry, BU) and Rajesh Ray (PG Department of Botany, BU) were jointly selected for the second position.

The three-day event was successfully coordinated by the Student Welfare Officer and Cultural Coordinator Mr. Anup Kumar Kujur.

Notably, the awardees will be given cash prizes and certificates on the university’s coming Foundation Day on January 2, 2018. 

(A report by Sohini Biswas and Kajal Maharana, JMC, Semester-I, 2017)