Inter School Chess Championship - Lucknow

Modern Indian School Rajaji Puram organised this year's inter school with support of District Chess Sports Association Lucknow. In all 93 players participated in all 4 categories. Number is nothing considering population of city but it better to have something than total inactivity.
Ex-Miniseter Sri Rajesh Yadav and state chess secretary Sri Raizada distributed prizes to following players-
Primary School Section

1-SwastikDehran
2-Vatsal Vora
3-Ayush Pandey
Junior Section
1-Akash Srivastava
2-Vasu Bajpai
3-Bunty
High-School Section
1-Vibhu Bajpai
2-Mithesh Kaladi
3-Shivendra Singh
Intermidiate Section
1-Abhijeet Srivastava
2-Gangesh Tiwari
3-Shivam Shukla
Though many girls took part in this tournament but none could finish in top 3 in their category. It is shocking that organisers did not give any special prizes to girls. How we are going to make chess popular among girls?
    Some of my present and old students got prizes. Swastik won primary group with perfect 5/5 .Among the girls Rishika Bhattacharya with 3.5/5 in junior section and Adarshika Srivastava 3/5 in primary section did reasonably well. Mithesh Kaladi who was expected to win highschool could manage only II place.Ayush Pandey who was expeced to win primary group got IIIrd place with 4/4 points as he could join tournament late and missed first round.