The Ganjam District Book Fair Committee on held a ‘Pratibha Anweshana’ (talent search) programme for its Mahanagar Pustak Mela-2016 to begin here on December 16. As many as 300 students belonging to Class VI to X from different schools of the district participated in competitions like debate, essay, drawing and song. Students were chosen in first, second and third positions. Singers Sudip Sahu, Nihar Ranjan Das and Pradip Satpathy were juries for song competition and Manoj Samal, Ajit Sabat and Ajit Sethy were for debate. Committee members Balmiki Mohapatra, Kshirod Kumar Sahu, Kailash Panigrahi and Brundaban Barakha coordinated the programme. Aryana Gurukul director Sanjeeb Tripathy provided support. A talent search programme for Class III to V would be held on Nov 27.