Shyam Sundar Achary, an employee of East Coast Railway (ECoR) Headquarters here, has topped again in the National-Level All-India Railway Painting Competition organised by the Railway Board at Guwahati on March 24.
The painting was themed “Rail, Rivers & Hills” wherein Achary has brought out the elements of nature with rail, river and hills. Altogether, 24 employees from different Railway Zones had participated in the competition.
Last year, Achary’s painting was themed “Transforming Railways” wherein Achary brought out the elements of modernity of bullet train and new technology from heritage concept of pre-Independence Indian Railways with its most famous passenger ever, Mahatma Gandhi. Due to this painting, Achary’s name and fame spread all over the country.
He is working in the ECoR since 2008 and is a native of Paralakhemundi (Ganjam).
Previously, Achary has won a large number of awards from various organistions and also from the Government of Odisha. He is extremely gifted and has excelled in sketching portraits and other figurative works and blends a rare mixture of realistic and surrealistic (dream) creative work which is being greatly appreciated in contemporary art circles.