The results of painting competition ‘Jannayak Chitrankan Competition’ have been announced on Monday by Directorate of Swaraj Sansthan. Notably, the painting competition was organised at fine art colleges in Gawalior, Jabalpur, Indore and Khandwa last month by Directorate of Swaraj Sansthan. As many as 150 students participated in the competition which was based on the legend of tribal people’s heroes and freedom fighters Tantya Bhil and Bhimanayak.
The competition was divided in two categories. The active artists were under the first category and students of colleges were in the second category. Mahima Patel from Khandwa and Jyoti Sharma from Gwalior won the first prizes in their individual categories in Jannayak Chitraknan competition. They would be felicitated with cash prizes of `15,000 and `5,000 respectively. Whereas Mahendra Dubey, Manish Gupta, Mohan Vishwakarma, Shailendra Nema and Sudhanshu jaiswal will be awarded with `2000 as consolation prizes under this category.
Omprkash Mahore from Gwalior will be felicitated with `10,000 as second prize, Amit Kumar Gupta from Khandwa with `5,000 as third prize under first category. Similarly, Shashank Nagesh from Jabalpur will be felicitated with `3,000 as second prize, Aaditya Rajak from Gwalior with `2,000 as third prize under second category. Sunny Malwatkar, Mukesh Rajak, Ganesh Karangde, Nishu Sharma and Ravi Maurya will be awarded with `1,000 each as consolation under this category only. While talking about the competition, Director of Culture, Renu Tiwari said, “The selected painters will be felicitated in coming days and exhibition of their works will also be organised.”