Port Blair, Dec. 20: It is a proud moment for A&N Islands, as Ms. Jace Jackson & Ms. Meharpreet Kaur Bijjan of ANIIMS who represented Andaman & Nicobar Islands in the Regional Level Red Ribbon Club Quiz competition have won the second place, out of the total 8 team from other States & Union Territories. The other teams were from Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana.

Regional Level Quiz Competition was conducted by National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GoI organized at Pondicherry on 16th December 2022.  Team representing A & N Islands were selected through various rounds of competitions at College, Inter-college/inter-youth club and State level by Andaman & Nicobar AIDS Control Society (ANACS).

Dr. Munni Singhania, Director of Health Services congratulated the students for their good performance and encouraged them for participating in more such programmes.

Altogether, 25 teams from 13 Colleges and 9 team from 7 Youth Clubs participated and went through various rounds of quiz competitions and finally, one team was selected at State level to participate in the Regional round held at Puducherry along with 7 other states.

The objective of organizing this competition was to provide platform to exchange information on issues associated with HIV & AIDS, taboos and myths and to channelize the power of our youth in positive direction and assess the level of IEC in the territories which is matching with the national level.