WII-C2C organized the celebration of World Heritage Day 2022 on 18th April 2022 through a series of activities for local schoolchildren. The pre-lunch session was attended by 24 students of Raja Rammohan Roy Academy, 28 students of Graphic Era Global School, 25 students of St. Paul’s and 25 students of St. Mary’s. The session began with a welcome note by Dr. Gautam Talukdar, Faculty In-Charge, WII-C2C introducing the students to the concept of World Heritage Day & this year’s theme “Heritage and Climate” and Dr. Ruchi Badola, Dean & Registrar, WII encouraging the students to share their understanding of heritage and develop it further.

The students enthusiastically participated in the Art Competition based on themes of “Our Natural Heritage” and “Threats Associated With Natural Heritage” submitting creative artwork which amply conveyed the same. The prize winners in the same were Adamya Sharma (1st), Manish Garg (2nd) and Kartik Barmola (3rd) in the Junior Category (Classes 6-7) and Lakshita Thapa (1st), Manas Gulati (2nd), and Ram Vishal (3rd) in the Senior Category (Classes 8-9-10). This was followed by a trivia quiz competition “World Heritage Around The World” centred on World Heritage Sites where the prize-winners were the teams from St. Mary’s Secondary School (1st), Graphic Era Global School (2nd) and Raja Ram Mohan Academy (3rd). Thereafter, prizes were distributed to the winning students by Dr. Ruchi Badola bringing the pre-lunch programme for celebration of World Heritage Day to an end.