Shooting questions: Assam Rifles engage troops in battle of wits

It is not just about brawns but about brains too, or so the response to a recent quiz competition of the Assam Rifles suggested. The authorities of the security force conducted a quiz competition on Monday to, what the organizers explained, ‘inculcate awareness and uplift the intellectual level’ of the troops.

The Assam Rifles Training Center & School conducted the ‘Inter Battalion Quiz Competition’ in Shokhuvi on June 29 during which teams from all the three training battalions and one women-recruits training company of the security force participated.

Commandant of the training center Brigadier K Narayanan was the chief guest for the occasion.  The Assam Rifles Training Center & School issued a press release on Monday, June 29.

60 soldiers comprising 15 contestants from each training battalion and women training company “Lushai” took part in the event. The major objective in conducting the quiz competition was to inculcate awareness and “uplift the intellectual level” of the troops of Assam Rifles Training Center & School, the center said in the press release.

“The event was conducted in a systematic and comprehensive manner. A total of five rounds comprising option round, transfer round, rapid round, audio-visual round and lucky round were conducted in the event. All the contestants showed high level of enthusiasm and intellectual in the competition,” the center said.

Also, involving the non-participant in the event, questions were posed by members of the audience. The audio-visual round was “most interesting humourous round of the competition,” the Assam Rifles explained in the press release.    

Speaking during the occasion, Brigadier K Narayanan “appreciated the intellectual level of contestants” and the organizing staff for ‘conducting the event in systematic and professional manner’. “Expressing satisfaction over the cognition level of troops”, the commandant said it was a matter of pride for the Assam Rifles Training Center & School ‘to have such level of intelligence of troops’.

On the basis of aggregate marks gained in the event, number-3 training battalion was adjudged the best team after having secured the highest points. It was awarded the Inter Training Battalion Quiz Competition Championship Trophy for the year 2015.     

Number-1 training battalion, Lushai Company and number-2 training battalion of the Assam Rifles Training Center & School secured the second, third and the fourth position, in that order, in the competition. The chief guest gave away the prizes to the winning teams from each round.  

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