HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, India’s leading private sector general insurance company, declared JSS Shri Manjunathewara Central School, Hubli as the winners of HDFC ERGO Insurance Awareness Award Junior – Quiz 2020. With an impressive score of 205 points, the winners Kushal Pawar and Yash Jain were bestowed with the title of ‘National Champions‘ and rewarded prizes worth INR 2,25,000/-. Maharaja Agrasen Vidyalaya, Ahmedabad, team bagged the title of the first runner up team to take home won prizes worth INR 1,50,000/- and BJEM School, Bhubaneshwar, team finished as the second runner up team to claim prizes worth INR 75,000/-. The other finalists were also awarded prizes worth INR 30,000/- each for their unwavering efforts. Hosted virtually for the first time, the quiz continues to inculcate the ethos of financial inclusion and drive the much-needed awareness of insurance as a necessity in life.
Launched in 2016, this unique initiative taken by HDFC ERGO intends to promote insurance literacy as a necessary life skill amongst school students and has so far ignited more than 2 lakhs young minds with the concepts of insurance. The format includes HDFC ERGO conducting workshops in schools for class 8th and 9th students and share with them fundamen