Our Honourable HRD minister has shaken and stirred the academic fraternity and raised several baffling questions like those mentioned above by his announcement of a facelift of the entrance examination system to engineering colleges in our country. Mr. Kapil Sibal’s decision to unify the multitude of tests that keeps a student hopping and skipping in his quest for technical education clearly aims at reducing the burden of the already over laden student. But in doing so, a huge question-mark has been stamped upon the future of that Holy Grail of all examinations, the Joint Entrance Examination. And to say that this has become a bone of contention among the public would be an understatement.

Opinions are divided. Both sides have their own arguments to defend or attack the reforms and decisions that have been proposed. But even the most vocal supporter of this decision cannot deny the fact that for the past 45 years, the JEE has been a keystone of the Indian education system. Yes, doing away with all examinations will for sure reduce the burden on the students. But the underlying implications cannot be overlooked.

The JEE – with its unique design which separates the quickest, sharpest and the cleverest academic minds from the thousands of aspirants every year- is to a large extent responsible for creating and maintaining the brand IIT. With a single test in place, the toughness is unlikely to be comparable to that of the JEE. Add to this the large number of students who appear for the exam, and this will unquestionably lead to quite a few students having comparable results. The problem then would be effective judgment and interpretation of these results. Among students having such highly analogous results, how does one ensure that the IITs will only get the cream of the crop, the kind of students the JEE has provided in the past? For if this is not ensured, then the unified entrance test will be failing the IITs and not fulfilling its purpose- which the JEE has been so efficiently carrying out since its inception.

Another proposed reform that perhaps might give the students sleepless nights is the decision to include the class 12 examination marks as a merit list criterion for admission to the IITs. India is a land of diversities and I wouldn’t be wrong if I said that even our education system is no exception to this rule. With each state having its own Board of Education, apart from the Central and International Boards, there are close to 40 different educational standards throughout the country. Each Board judges the students’ acumen and skill in a way that is quite different from the others. It is a natural inference that there will be poor correlation among the results of different boards and thus the class 12 marks would make poor criteria for judgement. Take a look at what happened in DU earlier this year and the futility of this exercise shall come to light.

Pundits say that this hurdle can be vaulted over using the process of ‘normalization’ of the results across all board. However this process has a loop-hole that has already been exploited in the past. What, I ask, is to stop the board officials of every state from inflating the marks of their students just so that they can make it to the IITs? ‘Wait!’, you say. ‘Already exploited? Would anyone actually dare to do that?’ All you need to do is look at the case of BITS, Pilani who had adopted this process. Lo and behold, suddenly one day they find 70 percent of their students are from the same state. The consequence? Discarding of this method and reinstating of the good ol’ entrance exam.

Lastly, combine these two proposals and you have a worrisome scenario in the offing. If the future of a student hinges on just one exam, one can only imagine the level of cut-throat competition that shall arise out of this. Such competition will only serve to reassure the dominance of coaching classes. They’ll spawn and generate by the dozen – not only for the entrance test, but also for class 12 boards and who knows, maybe even for the class 10 boards to prepare the students from an early age. Also, the current system does allow a student several rolls of the dice if he misses out on previous opportunities. The single-exam pattern, however, leaves a lot to luck. One bad day, a few incorrect answers and clang! All doors shut in a single stroke.

There are several other limitations that could be pointed out but the only thing that we say is- no system is perfect. Your intentions are noble,Mr Sibal and we do not doubt them. But the need of the hour is to make sure that the meritorious students are assured of the place that they deserve and that they do not lose out because of any reason whatsoever. The JEE, in spite of all its defects and shortcomings, has been doing that with nothing short of splendid results. At this juncture, it is time we ask ourselves what is better – a process that has obvious flaws and yet has been tried, tested and successful or a new-fangled one that has both visible and unseen imperfections to it?

What is CFA?

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program is a graduate level self study program offered by the CFA Institute to those interested in investment and financial professions. Its syllabus is guaranteed to make the candidates well informed and is internationally recognised. While the main focus is on portfolio management and financial analysis, it brushes through the other areas of finance as well. Most financial institutions consider the CFA charter to be a symbol of professional excellence.

The Exam Structure and Syllabus

In order to participate in the CFA program, “a candidate must hold or be in the final year of a university degree, or have 4 years of qualified, professional work experience in an investment decision-making process.”
The program is spread across 3 levels. The fee structure varies with the CFA program curriculum, i.e., eBook only, print only, or both. The enrolment fee and the exam registration fee increase with each deadline.

Level I
The first paper is based on multiple-choice with approximately 240 questions and a time limit of 6 hours, split into two 3-hour sessions. It focuses on tools and concepts that apply to investment valuation and management. The prerequisites for this level include a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, obtained no later than the 31st of December of the year in which the first exam will be written. The exam is held during the first weekends in June and December and the results are declared within 60 days. The passing rate for this round is about 35-40%. The fee, usually unkind on students’ pockets, ranges from $1,070 to $1,470.

Level II
The second exam is similar to the first with multiple choice questions to be attempted in 6 hours. It mainly deals with asset analysis. The second level is held in the month of June only and results are usually provided within 90 days. Around 40% of the candidates pass this level.

Level III
The final level comprises of 120 multiple choice questions as well as an essay, with equal importance to both and a total time of 6 hours is provided . The exam explores portfolio management in great depth. The requirements are a passing grade in Level 2 and 3 years of professional work experience. One must demonstrate a working knowledge of the portfolio management process, from calculating investor constraints, objectives, and capital-market expectations to making asset-allocation decisions. The exam is conducted in June and results are declared within 90 days. 45% of the candidates clear this level.
It typically takes a minimum of 4 years to complete the CFA Program.

CFA vs. MBA

While most websites harp on about the syllabus being very similar to a Masters in Financial Management, our alumni still feel that one cannot substitute for the other. A PGDM from an IIM or the ISB would guarantee you a better placement and a more thorough understanding of the subject. An MBA from a B-school abroad is beyond comparison, they say.
“An MBA is required to spur your career. Time it well. And while you wait for that time – enhance your knowledge with CFA”, says a 2006-graduate who, having completed all 3 levels, is now going to continue working for a couple of more years before going for a foreign MBA. There are few who opt for substituting an MBA with the CFA degree, citing time-saving to be the advantage.
As far as an alumnus who recruits B-school grads, is concerned, nothing beats a class-room education and formal recognition from a good university.

Why CFA?

The publicly touted reason is that the CFA charter is one of the most highly respected and valued qualifications recognised internationally. It is a representation of your professional competency.
While most students on our campus cite CV-building as the primary reason and a fresh curiosity about Finance as the secondary motive, the alumni we spoke to, have a little more to add.
One at Deutsche Bank says that having the most comprehensive and vast self-study syllabus available gives you an overview of a broad gamut of the various fields in finance in a lucid manner. A CFA qualification usually gets you into the buy-side of the finance-based careers as the syllabus with every increasing level shifts more towards Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management. Another recent alumnus adds that as most banks sponsor the exam and aggressively encourage their employees to become CFA charter-holders, there isn’t any financial burden on the candidate and complete support from the work-place eases the process of balancing work and study. Other alumni contributed, saying that even though they are pursuing Masters in Management or Finance, they find the syllabus helpful because it covers all topics breadth-wise and not in-depth. “Completing the 3 levels of CFA via self study shows perseverance, adds tremendous value to your CV and does aid in your chances of a bonus or hike in salary”, says another alumnus who has recently acquired the charter.
When speaking to our peers across the IIT campuses, we came across a similar trend. More than 50 people in our own campus and a similar number in IIT-B have attempted the CFA Level-1. The CFA-bug has also spread to Delhi and Madras. “It’s not really a differentiating criterion anymore. Everyone serious about finance clears the first level before graduating”, says a recent IIT-B graduate who says that the qualification helped him get a Masters in Finance despite having an engineering background. Other students say that clearing the first level is more than enough for you to understand if your interests lie in the area or not. They say that not all finance-based companies value the charter enough to sponsor you and cite financial restrictions as the reason for not completing the course.

Bottom line: if you are interested in learning finance, have heavy-enough pockets and have nothing better to do with your time here – CFA might just be the answer for you.

More information can be obtained at http://www.cfainstitute.org/

The Counseling Center at IIT Kharagpur was instituted on September 2nd 2009. We had lost four students to suicide in a span of less than a year. Many felt a void on campus in addressing student mental health issues. The Counseling Center was formed under the office of Dean of Student Affairs as part of an initiative to address that void, with a mandate to promote student well being and to act as a coordination center to address student mental health issues.

We now have three counselors, two full time and one part time and two consulting psychiatrists. Hundreds of students have passed through our doors. Most have been self-referred. Most have had time-limited problems that resolved in due course.

When we started there was deep reservation about the adjective “mental”. Were we implying that some of our students were insane? Quite frankly no! We are living through the neuroscience revolution. Advances in neuro-imaging and cognitive neuroscience are rapidly unraveling how the mind works. Mental, we replied, meant just “to do with the mind”.

The process of counseling, my clinical psychologist colleagues say, involves actively thinking about new strategies to address a problem, and find better ways of living. This is done in a safe confidential environment. The counselor acts as a neutral non-judgmental facilitator. Who could argue that every one of us at some point in time could benefit from talking things over with a highly trained, non-biased, mind-sherpa?

In any given week most of the cases that we see in the Counseling Center have to do with juggling activities, trying to find a work life balance, managing conflicts with peers, managing conflicts with supervisors, managing conflicts in romantic relationships, trying to figure out how to focus better, especially when managing conflicts from all these sources.

Certain pathological conditions that require ongoing therapy, such as bipolar affective disorder or unipolar depression, can appear in the twenties. The most inspirational experiences I have had at IIT-Kgp have been in the past two years, watching some remarkable young men and women learn to cope with a chronic medical condition and march out of IIT-Kgp with their degrees, ready to conquer the world.

Sadly, this semester we lost a very bright, talented young man to suicide. Pankaj’s death gets us to rethink. There is still a lot that we can and must do as a community to prevent suicide.

TSA: You have studied Engineering at Oxford University. What was the motivation behind transitioning to Science Journalism as a career?

AS: I did some student journalism at Oxford and really enjoyed it. Although I love science and engineering, my personal passion is writing, so I decided to give journalism a shot when I left university. It turned out to be a good choice, because there are few reporters out there who are comfortable enough with science and maths to report on these kinds of issues effectively. Today, I love my job.

TSA: While researching for Geek Nation, what were the examples of scientific insight (if there were any) from India that stood out as particularly revolutionary and path-breaking? I think the most unusual was open source science, which is being used to develop a new drug for tuberculosis. This disease kills two Indians every three minutes, and yet there hasn’t been a new cure for around 40 years. So it’s exciting to see such a radical approach to drug discovery being used to come up with a low-cost, effective solution. I just hope it works.

TSA: In your book, you mention a peculiar combination of science and pseudoscience that seem to go together within the Indian Scientific establishment. How do you think this contradiction can be resolved?

AS:Well, it’s not so much a combination of science and pseudoscience as a sitting of the two next to each other. It’s certainly not the case that serious laboratory researchers or engineers turn to superstition to air their work. On the one hand, I think tolerating a broad spectrum of views and ideas is a good thing because it removes intellectual limits. but on the other hand, there does need to be a stronger scientific establishment to take a stand when there is hokum
or fraud.

TSA: Your visit to IIT Delhi must have given you a glimpse into how IIT’s function. How do you think they compare with the best of the world? What can be done to transform them from a hub of ‘drones’ to a hub of ‘geeks’ ?

AS:I think it’s already happening – I met many inquisitive, entrepreneurial IIT students on my travels. The key is to transform the IITs from plain teaching colleges to outstanding research institutions, and to some extent, there have already been moves by the faculties to encourage that. Students need to learn that staying on to to do a PhD and further research can be good for their careers.

TSA: Are IIT’s and IISc at the forefront of technological advancement in India, as it it widely believed or is there more to Indian Science then just these premier institutions?

AS:While the institutes are great at producing talent, they’re certainly not the best at producing research and innovation. That honour belongs to organisations like TIFR, CSIR and other private and government laboratories.

TSA: On a macro-level, is the institutional mechanism to promote scientific research, in place in India?

AS:Well, I think more could be done to remove hierarchies and promote a culture of reward that truly promotes young talent. This would make research institutions a more attractive place to work. Also, of course, funding into research and development needs to be ramped up across the board.

TSA: Finally, now that ‘Geek Nation’ is on best-seller lists, what are your future plans? Any book we should watch out for?

AS:I’ve been thrilled with the response to Geek Nation, and I definitely plan to write more books in the future. What they will be about and when the next one will come is a mystery for now. I’m still mulling it over! In the meantime, I would love it if IIT Kharagpur students would join the Geek Nation Facebook page so I can hear see their thoughts.

TSA:We would love to have you here. Are you planning to visit IIT Kharagpur anytime soon?

AS: If that is an invite, then consider it received! I would love to come and visit the campus… Just let me know when.

Consider the first claim: Is it true that the IIT-JEE is a fair competition? Can anyone compete and win? Or is the game strongly rigged to favor some over others, based on socioeconomic factors that are arbitrary and derive from accidents of birth? India lacks equality of opportunity due to many disadvantages, for e.g., of family income, social class, gender, caste, language, etc. So the runners on the racetrack to the IIT don’t begin at the same starting point. What does it mean to say that the first to cross the finish line deserve their wins?

Take my own example. I was born into an upper-caste, riding on eons of unearned privilege over 80% of Indians. I was a boy raised in a society that lavished far more attention on boys. In Gwalior, my parents fell closer to the upper middle-class, had university degrees, and valued education and success. I lived in a kid-friendly neighborhood with parks, playgrounds, and a staff clubhouse. I had role models and access to the right schools and books, the right coaching classes, and peers preparing for engineering entrance exams. My background gave me a sense of security and self-confidence that put me ahead of perhaps 96% of Indians—the odds that I would excel in the JEE were huge from the start. This made me think: was it me or my background that won?

As for the second claim about my academic merit, many natural gifts and aptitudes lay at the heart of it, gifts like analytical acumen and good memory and cognition—at least the kind that matter for the JEE. I was lucky to be born with some of these gifts. But can I claim credit for what is a matter of chance? I was lucky in another way too: I lived in a society that happened to value my aptitude for science and maths. It served me well in an India looking to modernize and the U.S. facing a shortfall of engineers. Would I have done as well in an earlier age when rewards favored those with an aptitude for trade or government bureaucracy? Centuries ago, society valued other aptitudes, such as sculpting bronze in Chola India, civil administration in Mughal times, or being a seafaring merchant among the Pandayas.

Which brings me to the third claim: What about the personal drive and hard work I put into cultivating my gifts? Do I not deserve to take credit for my diligence? Besides the fact that many others who worked no less hard didn’t make it, I must consider the countless factors beyond my choosing that shaped my ambition and drive—my family’s work ethic, my childhood experiences, subconscious insecurities, social milieu, career fads, role models, parental and peer pressure, available life paths, lucky breaks, and other contingent factors. I had not even thought much about the career path I stumbled upon. Given all this, it seems reasonable to ask: Did I, or did my socially conditioned ambition and drive get in to the IIT?

But perhaps this is how the system works. It selects us, like selecting actors for roles in a stage play, except we are given the illusion that we fully author the scripts for the parts we play. I realize now that to see through this is to abandon some of the ways in which we mark ourselves apart from our fellow humans, and open ourselves to other stages, other scripts, and other parts we can choose to play.

More from the author at www.shunya.net. Shunya’s Notes is a liberal-progressive blog visited by hundreds of discerning people each day. The founder of this blog, Namit Arora, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus has contributed this piece for The Scholars’ Avenue.

All one needs to become a writer, in my opinion, is a strong point of view on one’s subject (whether it is cricket, politics, or the novel), a love of language and of reading, and a willingness to constantly learn and improve.

In the past, it was sometimes difficult to get enough good reading material because of a paucity of bookshops and libraries. With the arrival of the internet, these can no longer be issues. Many of the world’s best literary magazines and journals are now available on the internet for free. One of the websites that contributed tremendously to my development as a writer was the filter blog Arts & Letters Daily (www.aldaily.com), which links everyday to some of the best pieces about literature, history, politics and ideas being published in magazines around the world.

Writing and reading are closely linked activities. You will only be as a good a writer as you are a reader. I think the mistake that young people without a degree in literature most commonly make is not reading enough in the form in which they want to write.

To become a better reader, it is necessary to devote yourself to reading that challenges you instead of just books which you can deal with in your comfort zone. Make an investment of an hour in good-quality reading as a matter of daily discipline every day, and in five years (yes, there are no short cuts to excellence in this field!) you will find yourself a better reader and writer than 95% of people around you.

Remember, merely to become a top-notch reader is itself a rare and unusual achievement. Some of the happiest and fulfilled people I know are people who love reading, and can hear all the different notes and layers of good books. I have never seen such people bored, or short of ideas.Keep a notebook where you copy out sentences or passages from books that strike you as particularly well-written. Just like one can find out all the secrets of a human body by dissecting it, so too one can learn all the secrets of writing good, powerful sentences by copying them out and studying their architecture.

To be a writer, one also needs to have an original view of oneself and the society in which one lives. There are things about the world that you have to love intensely and hate intensely, and you can only find these things out by constantly talking to different kinds of people, reading interesting books (not just novels but also history, biography, books on religion and politics), and travelling. The beauty of being a writer is that everything one does feeds into one’s work — one doesn’t switch on and off as in most other professions. Sometimes (although not too often) you can even sleep for two hours in the middle of the day and call it research!

Some books by Indian writers that I would recommend as excellent models for learning how to write better are Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi (which will show you how to condense a huge amount of information into a few pages through careful selection of details) and The States of Indian Cricket, Mukul Kesavan’s The Ugliness of The Indian Male, MG Vassanji’s The Place Within (one of the best travel books written about India), Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games. You should also deliberately read some poetry, as this helps one learn how to say complex things in as few words as possible, and to hear and make use of the innate rhythms of language. I’d recommend you read the recent collection of Tamil Sangam poetry Love Stands Alone or Vinay Dharwadker’s translation of the poems of Kabir.

Also read a good book-review supplement every week, such as the Guardian Review, or the New York Times Book Review, to keep in touch with the latest books in different disciplines. If you have difficulty early on getting your work published, you could start a blog where you could continuously put up new work. Always try and make your pieces as carefully written and edited as possible, though, so that the reader knows that his or her investment in your work is being respected.

Indian writing in English has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last decade, and the market for books by Indian writers has grown enormously. There are also many more opportunities for well-paid journalistic work commissioned by newspapers and magazines. I’ve been working as an independent, self-employed writer for nearly six years now, and I wouldn’t give up the freedom and independence of my life for even the most lucrative job. So if you’d like to be a writer (or just a better reader), there’s really nothing to stop you — go for it!

Chandrahas Choudhury is the author of the novel Arzee the Dwarf, which was recently selected as one of the “60 Essential Works of Modern Indian Literature in English” by World Literature Today. He also writes the literary blog The Middle Stage (http://middlestage.blogspot.com/). His new book is called India: A Traveller’s Literary Companion (HarperCollins, January 2011)

It was on one such dreary weekend that I decided to visit an old and little known fort, some 30 km from the campus – Fort Kurumbhera. The joy about travelling lies not in the distance covered, but in one’s experiences while covering that distance. Nothing beats the mental camera which absorbs every image through the lens of the eye. I decided to explore the place on my sturdy ‘milkman’ cycle. Of course for a trip like this, few would be willing. I played down the distance a little (20km) to convince a few friends to come along. Three agreed. Two came.

We started our journey around 7 in the morning and figured that we would reach the place in a little over two hours. Thankfully, Bengal is flat and we had no problems cycling all the way. We bowed to the wind to keep our tires intact and headed southwards. To reach this place one has to leave campus via the Prem Bazar gate and go straight through Salua all the way to Keshiary. Keshiary is a small town around 22 km south of the campus. From Keshiary we shifted onto the Belda road toward Kukai village. At Kukai we took the mud road leading to the village of Gaganeshwar in which the fort is situated.

Fort Kurumbhera, as it is known, is not really a fort. In fact its origins are unknown to the local villagers. Speak to some of them and they will tell you that the structure was built in a single day. Legend has it that Hanuman, on one of his visits, inscribed the name of Rama on a stone and tossed it in the area and the next day this structure magically appeared. After satisfying our respective curiosities and tossing around our theories about the origins and the possible uses of the edifice, we went into the village to learn more.

Some extensive research on the internet revealed some interesting but little known facts about the place. The fort we visited was actually an ancient Siva temple. It was built by Sena rulers when the Suvarnarekha river flowed there. There were two temples, one of which was washed away by the river. There used to be a Sivalinga installed within the temple which is not seen now. Moreover, historical records show that a mosque was built within the temple area. There is supposed to be an inscription in Persian that records this event. I was not able to locate the inscription on this visit. However, I was able to locate some other inscriptions in Oriya. Most of it is worn out but still visible on the southern walls of the fort.

Our tour of the fort ended fort ended with an interesting chat on the banks of an isolated lake somewhere deep within the village. We concluded the visit, dining on biscuits and bananas and listening to an opera featuring a number of colourful birds. The memories of this trip will remain with me for a long time, and lest I forget, my aching bottom is sure to remind me.

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What’s up, chef?

“A minimum of Rs 13,000-14,000 salary for each employee plus benefits. If new workers are employed by the HMC, who will it be a financial burden on? The students themselves.” And the increase in student intake cannot be expected to counter an increased cost of maintaining a larger permanent staff. As per a decision by the Board of Governors of the institute, the HMC is to recruit no more people under its fold. As the current situation stands, further privatisation of messes is subject to demand and supply: if and when it is felt that more workers are needed that cannot be supplied by the HMC, a particular mess will be privatised. Exactly which one will be decided by lot (Patel Hall’s mess was chosen this way).

I am an alumnus of the Class of 1995 of the Department of Architecture. The friendly folks at IIT KGP’s campus newspaper asked me to pen my thoughts on being an entrepreneur, so here goes:

I started off on the path to be the next Howard Roark of The Fountainhead fame after IIT, but then the IT buzz happened. I jumped ship, in search of unknown lands, unperturbed by the wry remarks of my peers and the disappointment of my mother, who says I gave up on my creativity to follow a ‘dumb’ career. Well, after 12 years, I realized that moms are always right – in hindsight though.

Rising up the career ladder, I hit a road bump two years ago.  IT wasn’t exciting any more – the fun in learning and doing was replaced with ‘head hunting’, ‘managing egos’,’adhering to norms’ & ‘cc-ing emails to 100 people every day’. I felt I was ‘rusting’, though technically I should have been happy – with a green card in process and the American dream half fulfilled. Suddenly I felt I had achieved everything but was left with nothing! I packed up and returned to India. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I definitely knew what I was not – being an ‘outsourced coolie’ to foreigners.

It was then that I discovered true opportunities as an entrepreneur within India. I picked the ailing agriculture sector as it was getting the least attention. Working with farmers, agricultural professionals, customers and traders, we realized the real reasons of the farmers’ crisis lie not in cultivation but in the Supply Chain. The age-old mandi system is not managed professionally and hence the huge fluctuations in availability and prices each day.

We set our aim to apply sound and economical technology solutions to solve immediate, critical problems in our own country and created revenue through economies of scale. The early sprint and agility to change course at will gives a huge advantage to a startup over entrenched competition.

eFarm, the venture we started, ties in farmers, intermediaries, logistics providers, distributors, small time retailers, all the way up to your local road side vendor into a single chain backed by the best information systems to deliver fresh, clean, low priced farm produce. It is part ebay, part dabbawala, part Amul, and part HLL, all banded into a ‘jugaadu solution’ to kick-start the agricultural supply chain.

‘So what is the crisis in the agriculture sector? My observations for two years suggest one most fundamental reason – you, the educated, elite, gen-X person with a devil-may-care attitude. No graduate today wants to do anything related to agriculture (in KGP lingo- ‘ghaasi’) as it is seen low tech. I know of several regional collectors who are former IITians and want youngsters to come in to rural India to help revive it- but there are no takers. After making it through JEE, somehow the philosophy seems to be ‘ride the wave’ rather than ‘continue to swim harder’. The contest only seems to revolve mainly around how to get jobs. Well, I don’t blame you; it took me 35 years to realize what I should have been doing all along is to sell sabzee.

In conclusion, it is not what you do that matters; it is how you do it.

Water Polo:

Day 1:

#Kgp v/s Delhi : 6-0

Day 2:

#Guwahati v/s Kgp : 2-13

#Madras v/s Kgp : 3-5

Day 3:

#Kgp v/s Bombay(semifinal) : 6-5

Day 4:

Kgp loses to Kanpur in the finals.

Overall:

KGP: Silver in Water Polo.

Aquatics:

Boys:

Chirag Fialoke:

#200 m breast stroke: Gold

#200 m free style: Gold

Darshan Varier:

#100 m butterfly: Bronze

#100 m backstroke: Gold

#400 m free style: Silver

Team:

#400 m free style relay: Silver

#Medley Relay: Gold

#Free style Relay: Gold

Girls:

Ronita Bej:

#50 m free style: Bronze

Overall:

KGP: Gold in Aquatics.