Tableaux of Malwa Mill depicting conversation among lord Ram, laxman, Sita and ‘kevat’ was adjudged the best tableaux of the Anant Chaturdashi procession taken out in the city on Wednesday night. Second, third and consolation prizes were won by the Swadeshi Mill, Kalyan Mill and Hope Textiles.
While Swadeshi Mill in its tableaux depicted ‘Shani dand’ (punishment by lord Shani), tableau of Kalyan Mill and Hope Textiles depicted world peace and ‘Shiva tandav’ respectively. As erstwhile Indore mills had been contributing to the traditional ‘Anant Chaturdashi’ celebrations of the city, only tableau of mills had been included for the award categories.
Under the ‘akhara and vyayamshala’ category, Chandrapal Ustad vyayamshala was awarded the first prize, while second prize was shared jointly by the Chogalal Ustad vyayamshala and Adarsh vyayamshala. Similarly Binda Guru Vyayamshala and Damru Ustad vyayamshala shared third prize jointly.
Under this category, special prizes were given to Gajiguru vyayamshala, Heeralal Ustad vyayamshala and Vrajlal Guru Vyayamshala (Jinsi) respectively. Under the boys’ category, Shubham Yadav of Guru Mohansingh Ustad Vyayamshala and Piyush Saini of Mahavir Ustad vyayamshala were given first prize jointly, while second prize under this category were shared by Akash Kaushal
of Gurudas Vyayamshala and Kamlesh Kotia of Malhar Martand dharmshala. Third prize under this category was won by Raj Verma of late Moolchand Ustad vyayamshala. Similarly under girls’ category, Kirti Jaria of Kallan Guru vyayamshala was given the first prize, while second prize was won by Vaishali Kaushal of Subhash vyayamshala.
The district administration had constituted separate committees for nominating award-winning tableaux and ‘akhadas’. The annual Anant Chaturdashi tableaux procession passed off in the city last night peacefully with no report of any untoward incident. The district administration had made elaborate security arrangement to ensure that there is no violation of law and order in the city, especially all along the procession route. As many as 36 organizations had taken part in the tableaux procession.
The tableaux which had been prepared with aesthetic design was watched by one and all with great enthusiasm.