Lok Sabha Question No. 3463 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-08
Subject: Mathematical Olympiad
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: SUDHEER GUPTA, KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, GAJANAN CHANDRAKANT KIRTIKAR, T. RADHAKRISHNAN, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO, ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN, VIJAY KUMAR S.R., S. RAJENDRAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3463 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8/8/2018

## MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD

## 3463. SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA:

KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH:

SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

SHRI T. RADHAKRISHNAN:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

SHRI ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN:

SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR:

SHRI S. RAJENDRAN:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

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- (a) the  number  of  students  who  have  been  awarded  medals  in  International  Mathematical  Olympiad  (IMO) during each of the last three years;
- (b) the criteria fixed by the Government for selection of students to participate in IMO;
- (c) whether India has participated in 59th IMO held in Romania recently;
- (d) if so, the details thereof along with the number of Indian students who participated in the said Olympiad;
- (e) the performance of Indian students in the above said event; and
- (f) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to improve the performance of students?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES AND MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

(DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

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- (a) The number of students who have been awarded medals for the last three years in IMO.
- (b) The selection process for the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) in India consists of four stages of examination.

IMO- 2016  (Hong Kong July 6-16, 2016)

Silver Medal 1

Bronze Medals 5

IMO- 2017 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 12-23, 2017)

Bronze Medals 3

Honourable Mention 3

IMO- 2018 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 3-14, 2018)

Silver Medals 3

Bronze Medals 2

Honourable Mention

1

Stage  I  Pre-Regional  Mathematical  Olympiad  (PRMO)  is  held  at  centres  across  India.    Students  fulfilling  the  age criteria (for IMO 2019, they should have been born on or after August 1, 1999) and studying in Class 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 are eligible to write PRMO.

Stage II Regional Mathematical Olympiad (RMO) is held at smaller number of centres in the region. The country is divided into 26 regions.  Based on the performance of PRMO, up to 300 students from Classes 8, 9, 10, 11 and up to 60 students from class 12 are selected to appear in RMO from each region.

Stage  III  Indian  National  Mathematical  Olympiad  (INMO)  is  held  at  30  centres  across  India.    On  the  basis  of  the performance in RMO upto 30 students from classes 8,9,10,11 and up to 6 students from class 12 from each region are selected to appear for stage 3 (INMO) examination.  On the basis of the INMO, the top 30 students from classes 8, 9, 10, 11  and  top  6  students  from  class  12  in  merit  from  all  over  the  country  are  selected  for  the  training  camp  at  Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai.

Stage IV International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp(INMO): The INMO awardees are invited to a month long training camp in April-May each year at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai.

On the basis of a number of selection tests during the camp, a team of the best 6 students is selected as the IMO Indian team.

- (c) Yes, Madam.  India has participated in 59th IMO held in Romania from July 3 to July 14, 2018.
- (d) Indian team consisting of 6 students participated in the 59th IMO held in Romania. The names of the students, the school and class in which thery are studying are given below:
1. Amit Kumar Mallik

Class 11th

Sri Chaitanya Junior College,

Telangana

2. PranjalSrivastava

Class 8th

National Public School, Koramangala,

Karnataka

3. SpandanGhosh

Class 11th

South Point High School

West Bengal

4. Anant Mudgal

Class 12th

Delhi Public School, Faridabad,

New Delhi

5. Pulkit Sinha

Class 12th

St. Francis School Indirapuram, Ghaziabad

Uttar Pradesh

6. Sutanay Bhattacharya

Class 12th

Bishnupur High School,

West Bengal

- (e) The performance of the Indian team in Romania at the 59th IMO is as follows :

Silver Medals 3 Bronze Medals 2 Honourable Mention 1

- (f) The steps taken by government to improve the performance:
- (1) From  the  year  2017  a  nation  wide  examination  Pre  Regional  Mathematical  Olympiad  (PRMO)  has  been initiated.    This will  be  the first  stage of  selection  to  participate  in  the  International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). In 2017, one lakh students registered for the examination and approximately 85,000 students appeared for  the  same.    In  2018,  the  PRMO  will  be  held  on  19  August  across  the  country.  Approximately  1.6  lakh students have registered for the exam. The question paper is bilingual.
- (2) The training camp for Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMOTC) is now organised in many regions and planned to extend the facility to all regions.

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