New Delhi, India -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/24/2014 -- National Finance Olympiad Association, the national body established under the aegis of International Institute of Financial Markets Ltd (IIFM), culminated their annual Financial Education program aimed at increasing financial awareness at school level on 22nd February with a Grand Quiz conducted and conceptualised by quiz master Pranav Chaturvedi, at India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi.

The day was termed as the Million Financial Smiles Day and saw 6 teams from various schools across India fighting it out for the coveted 1 lac cash scholarship. The quiz master, who is a board member at National Finance Olympiad and also the founder of the quizzing company QPundits, kept the whole atmosphere reverberating with some great questions and with his high energy.

There were nine rounds of intense quizzing and the winner Ryan International School, Chandigarh did not miss a chance to flaunt financial knowledge prowess.

Questions like -

"It is good on the eye and is light but it lacks detail and has been criticized as blind people find it hard to identify this by rubbing fingers on it. The two metallic rings clearly look different where the outer golden ring is aluminium bronze and the inner blank is nickel and copper. It weighs 7.7 gms . What are we talking of?" were thrown at the participating teams and the winner Ryan International School, Chandigarh promptly replied to the question, "the new 10 Rupees Coin", much to the amazement of the jam packed audience.

The first runners up Welham Boys School, Dehradun and the second runners up Anandalya from Anand, Gujarat received Rs 40,000 and Rs 20,000 cash scholarship respectively. The other teams that made it to the final were Modern School Vasant Vihar, Delhi, Mt Abu Public School, Delhi and Sulochana Devi Singhania School, Mumbai.

Another coveted prize of 'Finance Gurukul' was won by Ryan School, Gurgaon for motivating maximum students to participate in the National Finance Olympiad.

The Program Directors Hemant Bisht and Alok Sharma were thrilled with the outcome and congratulated the winning teams who made it through three rounds to reach the National Finance Olympiad's- "Million Financial Smiles- Grand Final Quiz".

Earlier in the year the National Finance Olympiad Association had reached out to over 5000 schools for conducting the Olympiad and had also conducted a Financial Literacy Artwork Contest.

The program was supported by generous sponsorship from organising bodies IIFM Ltd also from myGullak.com and PRATHAM Test Preparation Institute.

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14 year old Paras Chaudhary from DPS Indirapuram won the contest for his Artwork titled, 'Invest Don't Gamble'

New Delhi, India -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/09/2013 -- National Finance Olympiad Association announced the winner of their Artwork competition on Sunday 8th September 2013.

The winning artwork entry was called 'Invest don't gamble' and is on public display on the Finance Olympiad's Facebook page.

India's first literacy artwork competition saw some great artworks fighting for the top position but it was 14 year old Paras Chaudhary from DPS Indirapuram who eventually was declared the winner by the jury.

"The initiative taken to make children aware about this interesting subject which is essential part of our daily lives is applaud-able.", said Paras' mother Vandana Chaudhary.

"We are certainly committed to the cause and have received great response from school's all over India who are now planning to initiate Finance Olympiad within their schools. In stage 2, we would also be conducting an all India Financial Literacy Quiz and a Treasure Hunt.", said Vikrant Bahl, the program director of Finance Olympiad.

"We are accepting school nominations on our website till end of this month.", Bahl further added.

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The program in its first phase is reaching out to over 5000 schools across India.

New Delhi, India -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/12/2013 -- National Finance Olympiad, a program started by International Institute of Financial Markets Ltd, today announced the commencement of the Financial Literacy Artwork Competition. It would be for the first time that in India, such a competition has been organised for sensitizing school children towards the art and the need of managing money.

National Finance Olympiad would reach out to over 5000 schools in India to propagate financial literacy and has received tremendous support from schools across India. The Financial Literacy Artwork Competition is an online competition which the body seeks to undertake on its online social media platforms.

"It is humbling to see that school's are actively affiliating themselves to propagate Financial Literacy among their school kids. We are certain that our new initiative of Financial Literacy Artwork Competition will further motivate the students to participate in this drive and will put Financial Literacy in their radar of thoughts. For us, that is where we want to start", said Mr. Pranav Chaturvedi, Co-Founder and Director at IIFM on the launch of this nationwide competition.

"India was at the bottom among 16 countries that were surveyed by Mastercard in the Asia-Pacific region for its index for financial literacy with 59 index points.We need more such initiatives to educate our population",he further added.

The entries for the Artwork Competition are being accepted till August 15th, 2013. For details on the Financial Literacy Artwork Competition visit their Artwork tab on their Facebook page

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