page_title: Alcheringa (festival)
section_title: Competitions
hierarchical_section_title: Alcheringa (festival) / Events / Competitions
caption_attribution_description: English: A performer of the Maltese Alcgeria Dance Company performing at Alcheringa 2015
context_page_description: Alcheringa, also known as "Alcher", is the annual cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. The festival was started in 1996 by a group of students of IIT Guwahati. Spread over 3 days and 4 nights, Alcheringa is conducted towards the end of January every year. The 24th edition held from 30th January 2020 to 2nd February 2020, witnessing 80 events.
  The festival features one of the biggest rock band competitions of India, Rock-o-phonix.
context_section_description: Alcheringa hosts over 80 competitions. Some of the competitions held at Alcheringa are Electric Heels, the group dance competition, Voice of Alcheringa, the solo singing competition, Halla Bol, the street play competition, Rock-o-Phonix, the rock band competition, Mr. and Ms. Alcheringa, the personality contest, Crossfade, the scratching competition and Haute Couture, the team based fashion designing event.
  The Campus Princess is another beauty pageant of Alcheringa which started in its 20th edition, was conducted in association with the Miss India Organisation. The Auditions for Campus Princess were judged by Miss Asia Pacific World 2013 Ms. Srishti Rana. Mute, the Mime competition was judged by Mr Moinul Haque, the winner of the Sangeet Natak Academy Award.
caption: During the performance of Algeria Dance Company at Alcheringa 2015
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