Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 31: UCMAS Abacus, a Malaysia based organization pioneering in abacus based brain development programme conducted 5th J&K State Level Competition “Battle of Brain” here today.
In the competition, over 500 students pursuing UCMAS course participated in different batches.
The competition was conducted in 8 levels where 200 questions of Arithmetic (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division) were asked and children were given a time of mere 8 minutes to complete the paper.
On the occasion, Member Parliament (MP) Jugal Kishore Sharma was the chief guest, whileas senior BJP leader Yudhvir Sethi was guest of honor. Rupesh Masson and Sonia Masson, Directors UCMAS J&K were also present.
Jugal Kishore said “I am amazed to see how these small kids are able to perform 200 calculations within a very small period of time. This program really has very strong foundation and as it makes maths very easy for kids- every student should take benefit of this programme”.
Yudhvir Sethi emphasized that the UCMAS being an international organization gives wide exposure to students by conducting State level competition every year and this year UCMAS, J&K is going to take students for international competition, which is also big achievement in their credit.
The event was supported by franchise of different UCMAS centers namely Anita Bhan, Jyoti Kohli, Arti Chopra, Samant Chopra, Rashmi Aggarwal, Laxmi Gupta, Rita Sharma, Monika Sharma, Sonia Rekhi, Baljeet Kour, Shilpee Gupta, Ritika Gupta, Arun Gupta, Manmohan Singh.
On the occasion, Course Instructors of different centres namely Rita Sharma, Kalpana Jain, Rohini Gupta, Anjana Puri, Bandana, Monika, Salika Sharma, Neelam, Vandana, Sakshi Chouhan, Rashmi, Gurmeet, Arti Khajuria, Princi Jain, Monika and Harvinder Rana were also present.
In the end, Rupesh Masson presented vote of thanks.