The three-day 7th North East Graduate Congress (NEGC) 2023 concluded today at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM), with the participation of more than 10,000 college students from the eight North East states taking part.
Among the various competitions, the Best Performing College award went to Sibsagar College, while Kampur College won the Best Magazine prize. The Best Debater award went to Saphira Magdaline Lyngdoh from St Anthony’s College, Shillong, and the winner of the Cultural Procession was Mayong Ancholik College.
A total of 46 competitions in various sports, cultural, literary and start-up categories, as well as sessions on competitive examinations, personality development and a job fair took place in this mega youth event.
Attractive awards worth Rs 50 lakh, including two-wheelers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones and cash prizes were awarded to the winners of different competitions.
USTM Chancellor Mahbubul Hoque said, “We have been organising NEGC to benefit the region’s youths by helping them set their vision so that they can shoulder responsibilities and contribute to nation-building”.
NEGC is the flagship programme of USTM that aims to inculcate the spirit of competitiveness, regional integrity, social harmony and brotherhood among the youths, he added.
To provide the best employment opportunities to the educated youths of the region, a mega job fair was also organized for the NEGC participants, of whom more than 500 took part. Companies such as Bajaj Allianz, Reliance Jio, Kotak Life Insurance, CavinKare, Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail, MGT Motors Pvt Ltd were present at the fair to recruit graduates. Around 150 students have been shortlisted for different positions from technical to non-technical profiles.
Various co-curricular activities were organised during NEGC 2023, such as cultural skits, group song, group dance, on-the-spot painting, mehendi, cartooning, photography and rongoli. The sports competitions were volleyball, kabaddi, chess, arm wrestling, powerlifting, badminton, basketball and horse riding.
