Chinmaya Mission will launch Transforming Indians to transform India’, a national family quiz competition, here on October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti.

The Mission, which will celebrate the birth centenary of Swami Chinmayananda in 2015, has embarked on this programme to “transform India through the family system”.

The organisers told a press conference here on Friday that the competitions would begin in October and conclude on August 15, 2013. Each team would comprise three members of the immediate family. It would be held in districts, States and at the national-level.

The venue

The launch would be held at Maharaja College Centenary Hall at 10.30 a.m. Swami Hamsananda, head, Chinmaya Mission, Mysore; and Swami Muktidananda, head, Sri Ramakrishna Mission, Mysore; R. Vasudevamurthy, educationist; G. Madhusudan, MLC; and Jagannath Shenoy, industrialist would be present among others.

The first prize winner would get Rs. 2 lakh and a car, the second prize Rs. 1.5 lakh and a car, the third prize winner Rs. 1 lakh and a car, and the fourth prize winner Rs. 50,000.

Registration has begun at Gurudeva Datta Sannidhi, 148, 6th Main, 3rd Stage, Gokulam, Mysore-02.
Call 2413601 or 8904037968 or send an e-mail to Karnataka@transformingindians.org