The India Spelling Bee announced the national-level winners for the 2020 finale contest. Each winner from all the five categories including Grade 1 for Class 1, Grade 2 for Classes 2 and 3, Grade 3 for Classes 4 and 5, Grade 4 for Classes 6 and 7 and Grade 5 for Classes 8 and 9 have been declared. Students from Classes 1 to 9 of various schools from more than 20 states took part in the month-long virtual event.
The winners are-
Grade 1- Manav Khurana, Scholars Global School, Bahadurgarh
Grade 2- Kuval Anand, Sri Venkateshwar International School, New Delhi
Grade 3- Aayra Dhindsa Sawkmie, Sanskriti School, New Delhi
Grade 4- Achintya Jha, St Columba's School, New Delhi
Grade 5- Ananta Jaiswal, Little Flower School, Jamshedpur
The runners-up for each grade were announced separately.
Grade 1 - Vishaak Vijayakumar, St. Francis School ICSE, Bangalore, Syeda Aabida Manzoor, GD Goenka Public School, New Delhi
Grade 2 - Radha Hardikar, Pawar Public School, Pune and Ritisha Jain, Delhi Public School, Udaipur
Grade 3 -Mithra Prabhu, Ideal Play Abacus, Chennai, Ayaan Joseph, St Columba's School, Delhi
Grade 4- Soumya Mishra, Ambuja Vidya Peeth, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh, Vivaan Mehta, Laxmi Global School, Vapi.
The contestants had to go through regional rounds held in northern, eastern, western and southern regions. The winners from each region qualified to take part in the national final round. India Spelling Bee is held in-line with the International Spelling Bee contest. Earlier on April 22, 2020 International Spelling Bee contest was cancelled for the first time since World War-II due to COVID-19.
