SNU hosts 1st Chemistry Olympiad on Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray

The Sister Nivedita University and Indian Chemical Council commemorated the Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray on August 2 and held the 1st Chemistry Olympiad at the SNU campus.

The program included a lecture by Prof. G. D. Yadav, Emeritus Professor of Eminence and Former Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology-Mumbai, on ‘Achieving Sustainability and Net Zero Goals in the New World Order of Hydrogen Economy, Decarbonization, Biomass Valorization, and Plastic Chemical Recycling: Future of the Green Chemical Industry’.

This was followed by a second lecture from Mr. Swapan Kumar Ray, Professor of Practice at Somaiya Vidyavihar University and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, on ‘Chemical Industry & the Sustainability Paradox’.

The Winners in the school category were –

• First position are G. D. Birla Centre for Education (Madhupi Mukhopadhyay, Rahini Saha, Ditsa Biswas)
  
• Second position - South Point High School (Riddhi Senapati, Swastik Roy, Ritujeet Sarkar)
• Third position – St. Xavier's Collegiate School (Aishik Mukherjee, Aurosri Desarkar, Aaditya Mukherjee

The Winners in the college category were -

• First position - St.Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Mohar Majumder, Ahana Roy, ⁠Jishnu Sarkar)
• Second position - St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Abhishek Dey, Sanjukta Chatterjee, Sayandeep Dey)
• Third position - Indian Association for Cultivation of Science , Kolkata (Kaustuv Bag , Mintu Patra, Anirban Das)