CU becomes youngest
university of the country to claim overall championship at 35thNational
Youth Festival
Team CU brings back title to the state after a
gap of five years
ChandigarhUniversity Gharuan has created history by lifting the Overall Championship at 35th
AIU Inter- University Youth Festival 2020 organized by Association of Indian
universities.
With this CU
becomes the youngest university in the country to win this title. As many as 36
students from Chandigarh University, won overall trophy in Theatre & Fine
arts and won 9 gold medals, 4 silver medals in different categories. Student
teams from more than 93 universities all over India participated in the youth
fest held at Noida. This was announced during a press conference at Chandigarh.
Dr. A.S. Kang and Manish Jhangra from Department of Student Welfare, Chandigarh
University were also present on the occasion.
Elated with
this performance by the students of Chandigarh University, Vice Chancellor of Chandigarh
University, Dr.R.S. Bawa said, “This performance by the
students of Chandigarh University has been possible as they themselves are very
talented and at their talent was nurtured by some of the best from the fields
of theatre, dance and music.” Dr. Bawa said that there were some students who
realized their potential about these extra circular activities after they
joined here.
Prior to
this win, team Chandigarh University has shown glorious performance at National
level youth festivals as the team bagged overall runners up position in 2019
while the theatre team of CU have created a national record by winning the
overall theatre trophy consecutively for the fourth year.
Feeling
delighted on the performance of team Chandigarh University, ViceChancellor said, ‘’By winning the Overall Championship at 35th
National Youth Festival 2020, university from Punjab has reclaimed their hands
on the overall AIU trophy after a gap of 5 years’’.It is an honour to announce that Chandigarh University became
first to bring overall National Championship trophy in Tricity, he added. As many as 93
university teams with 1600 participants from northern India took part in
various contests of music, theatre, dance, literary and fine arts this year. Chandigarh University bagged
the overall trophy by winning 9 first positions in one act play, skit,
Mime, clay modelling, on-the-spot-photography, installation, procession, Folk
dance, Collage making, and Four2nd positions in on the spot
painting, poster making and vocal solo( western),Group song (Western) . It was
on 3rd position in mimicry.Vice
Chancellor announced that all the National Award winning performances will be
exhibited in Tagore Theatre to the public of Tricity in the 3rd week
of February.
Team of
students comprising of Arunesh, Akash, Ankit, Yadhunandan, Ankita, Raghvendra,
Sukant, Jaya and Saksham Singh won 1st position in the One Act Play ‘’Kashima’’ ,
showcased the story of the girls who face atrocities and been killed. 1st
positioned Mime titled ‘’Honor Killing’’ enacted on social issue prevalent in
patriarchal society. In both performances, woman’s’ struggle for survival has
been presented. 1st positioned Skit was based on an idea of today's
world where we all are talking about women empowerment and equal rights, there
are men too who go through various mental and emotional traumas.In
total,Chandigarh University won 9 first positions in one act play, skit, Mime, clay
modelling, on-the-spot-photography, installation, procession, Folk dance,
Collage making while 4 second positions in On the spot painting, poster making
and vocal solo( western),Group song (Western).
Aimed
to promote new talent, Chandigarh
University mentor
students as all-rounder to render holistic development. It also provides
competent Directors and artists who organize workshops and conferences to train
the students in the field of art and culture so that they can compete at
various international and nation championships.
Meanwhile Gauhati
University was declared 1st runner up while Banasthali Vidyapith
University, Rajasthan bagged 3rd position.
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