ROTARY INT. DIST. 3291 · District Literacy Initiative
A district-wide academic and awareness olympiad for Classes V–XII, blending core scholarship with health, financial and civic literacy — reaching thousands of students across West Bengal each year.
Lead Host Club: Rotary Club of Madhyamgram Metropolitan · Host Club (from RY 2026–27): Rotary Club of Calcutta · Co-hosted & associate-hosted by other Rotary Clubs of RID 3291
Attempts and exam registrations cumulative across every season uploaded so far (2023–24, 2024–25 & 2025–26) · pincodes de-duplicated across both awareness and exam pools (298 unique) · schools de-duplicated across all five season lists by exact name-matching (247 unique — 129 schools appear in both pools, 114 exam-only, 4 awareness-only)
The Swarna Kana Olympiad is an official literacy initiative of Rotary International District 3291, organised by the Rotary Club of Madhyamgram Metropolitan as Lead Host Club, with the Rotary Club of Calcutta as Host Club from RY 2026–27 onwards, together with the District Literacy Committee, and co-hosted & associate-hosted by other Rotary Clubs of RID 3291.
What began in 2005–06 as an inter-school merit test has, over two decades, grown into a flagship educational project officially recognised by the District. Through the Swarna Kana App, it now reaches 2,500–3,000 students annually across Classes V to XII, aligned with the National Education Policy 2020 and Rotary International's global Areas of Focus.
Every attempt is proctored online, and every school — from Kolkata's inner wards to towns two hours out — competes on the same paper, at the same time, on the same platform.
Participate on any mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop, with automated video proctoring for fair, transparent assessment.
Get the Swarna Kana App Official Web PortalFive objectives drive the Olympiad, mapped onto six of Rotary International's global Areas of Focus.
Every Olympiad category and awareness module traces back to one of four pillars — academics is only the first of them.
Each track is pitched to its age group — numeracy first, then applied science, then the reasoning and technology skills that carry into higher study.
Core numeracy, logical reasoning and mathematical problem-solving, built to sharpen the fundamentals before secondary school.
Science, technology, engineering and maths — with AI and modern computing concepts woven through applied problems.
Advanced English, general knowledge and logical reasoning, extended into technology and cyber security awareness.
Every category runs through the same three-round structure. Read this before registering — candidature can be cancelled for missing the video-supervision session or attempting unfair means.
Awareness questions are drawn from Thalassemia, cervical cancer, polio, social awareness & ethics, mental health, and financial literacy — the same six modules covered in the awareness papers.
Number of questions, duration and subject-wise evaluation criteria may be modified if required. Date, time slot and subject-wise marks are announced after the Main Round.
The date and time slot for each round, along with any other exam-related details, will be published in the Notification section of the Swarna Kana App or the official web portal. Students are advised to follow the web portal or the Swarna Kana App for this information.
Negative marking applies in all three rounds, including the Final Interview Round.
Every awareness module hands the student a short passage they've never seen, then tests comprehension — so the reading is the lesson.
Genetics, screening and prevention of thalassemia — the season's largest module, with 488 attempts.
Immunisation history and eradication efforts, reaching students across 63 pincodes.
Ethics and civic responsibility — the highest-scoring module of 25–26, at an 82.2% average.
Savings, budgeting and everyday money management for school-age readers.
Early detection and prevention, delivered in an age-appropriate reading format.
Emotional wellbeing and stress awareness, framed for younger and senior readers separately.
Average scores per module, weighted by attempts across every season that ran it — a read on how well the message is actually landing, not just how many showed up.
Attempts-weighted average across every season a module has run (2024–25 & 2025–26 for modules shared across both years; 2025–26 only for Financial Literacy, Mental Health, Polio and Value Education, which are new this season). Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad awareness dashboards, RID 3291.
The three modules that ran in both seasons, side by side. Every one improved.
Only the three modules run in both seasons are compared here (Environmental Awareness, Thalassemia Awareness, Cervical Cancer Awareness). Financial Literacy, Mental Health, Polio and Value Education are new to 2025–26 and have no prior-year baseline.
Pick a season and a module to see its class-wise turnout, gender split, paper variants and top schools.
Full participation and performance data for every season, drawn straight from the Olympiad's official dashboards.
The academic tracks, separate from the awareness papers above — registered candidates by class, gender and category.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2025–26 registration dashboard, RID 3291. Mathalon (V–VIII), STEM (IX–X), Intellect Apex (XI–XII).
Six health, financial and civic-literacy modules, run as unseen-passage papers alongside the academic exam.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2025–26 season dashboards, RID 3291. Figures cover the six awareness subjects and their ten paper variants.
Every school that sat the 2025–26 awareness papers, ranked by how many students took part and by how well they scored.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2025–26 schoolwise dashboards, RID 3291 (all 68 participating schools). Score leaderboard includes schools with smaller attempt counts — treat top scores alongside participation for the fuller picture.
The academic tracks, separate from the awareness papers above — registered candidates by class, gender and category.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2024–25 registration dashboard, RID 3291. Mathalon (V–VIII), STEM (IX–X), Intellect Apex (XI–XII).
Three health and civic-literacy modules run this season, as unseen-passage papers alongside the academic exam.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2024–25 season dashboards, RID 3291. This season ran three awareness modules — Environmental Science, Thalassemia Awareness and Cervical Cancer Awareness.
Every school that sat the 2024–25 awareness papers, ranked by how many students took part and by how well they scored.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2024–25 schoolwise dashboards, RID 3291 (all 113 participating schools). Score leaderboard includes schools with smaller attempt counts — treat top scores alongside participation for the fuller picture.
The earliest season with digitised records. No awareness-module dashboards were run this year — exam registration only.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad 2023–24 registration dashboard, RID 3291. Mathalon (V–VIII), STEM (IX–X), Intellect Apex (XI–XII).
Schools ranked by total exam registrations summed across every season they placed in the top 20 (2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26). A school absent from a season's top 20 may still have registered students that season — this totals only their counted appearances, so treat it as a floor, not an exact lifetime total.
Source: Swarna Kana Olympiad exam registration dashboards, RID 3291 (2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26). School names matched across seasons by name; minor spelling variants were reconciled where confidently identifiable.
298 unique pincodes touched in total — 173 through awareness papers, 294 through exam registration, overlapping heavily. Rings show exam reach, dots show awareness reach, by postal district.
District outline traced from public boundary data (geohacker/india); district markers are illustrative clusters, not exact pincode geocodes · Deduplicated union of pincodes across all seasons uploaded, RID 3291.
Every student action — registration, profile updates, result enquiries, and all official notifications — is handled exclusively through the Swarna Kana App or the official web portal. This website does not process registrations or issue notifications directly.
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Beyond the Lead Host and Host clubs, the Olympiad draws on a rotating roster of Rotary Clubs across RID 3291 each season — 42 distinct clubs have taken part across the three years on record.
25 supporting clubs, RY 2025–26.
29 supporting clubs, RY 2024–25.
26 supporting clubs, RY 2023–24.
Source: SKO Supporting Rotary Clubs register, RID 3291 (RY 2023–24 to 2025–26).
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