As directed by the Election Commission of India the first ever national election quiz was conducted across the country and Nagaland also conducted the same during November and December 2017 as follows: Intra school competitions; district round where winners of the intra school competitions participated and state round, where winners of the district rounds participated.
According to DIPR report, in the state round conducted on December 15, 7 district teams participated where team of Ministers’ Hill Baptist Higher Secondary School was declared winner.
At the end of the quiz competition held at Kohima, Abhijit Sinha chief electoral officer (CEO), Nagaland addressed the participants and teachers where he said that the primary objective of the Commission was to engage the young students in the age-group of 14-17 years- the future voters, in a self-learning exercise about the electoral process so as to build an informed electorate in near future. CEO expressed his positive impression to the participants and congratulated the winners namely, Merio N. Ngullie, Class-12, and Kekhriese Yhoshu, Class-11 of Ministers’ Hill Baptist Higher Secondary School, Kohima who would be representing the state in the semi final to be conducted in New Delhi in January 2018 and wished them to success at the national level. CEO also thanked all the other participants and asked them to work harder for similar competitions that would follow in near future. He appealed all to disseminate the message on increasing qualitative participation in terms of ethical and informed voting to all the parents and friends as people of Nagaland would be going to polls in early 2018.