Aaditri Vaibhav of IIT Kharagpur was on Sunday declared the national topper of the second scoring round, called I, of the National Inter-college Crossword Expedition (NICE) 2023. She was followed in 2 and 3 positions by Akshay Kumar Joshi of IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, and Rishita Kumari of Patna University, Patna, respectively. In zonal rankings, while Jyoti Kumari of Nalanda College of Engineering, Nalanda, (Bihar) has topped the East Zone, Charagundlq Sailaxman of National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya reserved the 1 position in the North East Zone. Tiya Agrawal, from Sanskriti University, Mathura has topped the North while Poojalkshmi of Panimalar Engineering College, Thiruvallur( Tamil Nadu) is at the top in the South Zone. The West Zone winner is claimed by Premthilak of B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad(Gujarat). NICE 23 is the second edition of the national contest which was inaugurated last year. It comprises three stages. Stage I is an online individual contest consisting of four rounds. Based on cumulative scores at the end of the 4 online rounds, participants qualify for Stage II which is an offline team contest. In this stage, five zonal finals are held where qualifying students have to form two-member teams to represent their institutions. The winners of the zonal finals then converge on the national capital to play the grand finale to claim the national championship trophy. 
The contest is being organized by the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi in association with the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE),Mumbai , and Extra-C, a civil society initiative for the promotion of a holistic educational environment.  
The free-of-cost registration will remain open throughout Stage I, which ends on April 30, on www.crypticsingh.com. The official website of Extra-C will also be the  hosting platform of Stage I and any other online activities associated with the contest.

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