The two-day Journalist's Hour, organised by the News and Publication society of BIT, Mesra, concluded on Sunday.
The first day of the event which was conducted in two rounds witnessed the participation of about 15 teams from the 2019 and 2018 batches. For the first round, the teams were divided into different pools. Each pool was given a case study from which they had to form a problem statement.
In the second round, the problem statements were swapped amongst the teams and they had to provide a solution to them. A total of six of the participating teams qualified for the final round to be held the next day on Sunday.
The final round was conducted on Sunday which was a panel discussion, the topic for which was declared beforehand.
The topic for the discussion was “What were the reasons for the worsening plight of justice? What aspects should be incorporated so that justice prevails pertaining to all the pillars of democracy?”
It also included a questionnaire from the remaining members of the team.
The jury panel consisted of Bhavya Raj, Yash Singhania and Achirava Raha and the moderator for panel discussion was Alaap Banerjee.
The top three performing teams were Team Spontaneous, Team Seekers and Team Optimus.
