District-level inter-school competitions and inter-college/school lok Nritya competitions have been organised under the joint aegis of district administration, sports and youth welfare department Bijapur at Bijapur community hall from September 30 to October 3.
Four fifty seven contestants from all the four development blocks of the district participated in the competitions. In the Rangoli contest Durga Reddy, Preeti Yadav (both from Bijapur) and Sona Koram of Cherpalli bagged the first, second and third prizes respectively. In painting, Pawan Durgam Madded grabbed the first prize while Pallavi Bijapur and Anjana Patel Bhairamgarh got the second and third positions.
In the extempore speech, Jagriti Mandal, Shivam Pandey (both from Bhairamgarh) and Shraddha Edric Bijapur won the first, second and third prizes respectively, whereas, in poem recital Ritesh Gandharla Bijapur got first prize and Rukmani Bijapur and Satish Kumar Mandavi stand second and third.
In the debate competition, Arun Dhruv Bijapur stand first and Shivam Pandey and Nagendra Singh (both from Bhairamgarh) bagged the second and third prizes respectively. In the quiz contest the first prize was bagged by Kiran Thakur and Jitendra Kattam Bijapur, while Ritesh Gandharla and Ravishankar Bijapur got the second prize and Nishta and Aasma Bijapur got third prize.
In the lok Nritya contest, Jangla High School, Government Girls Higher Secondary School Bijapur and Government Higher Secondary School Bhairmgarh bagged first, second and third prizes respectively. Collector Bijapur Mohammad Kaisar Abdul Haq and district Panchayat executive officer Sameer Bishnoi gave away prizes to the winners of the competitions and congratulated them.
Principal Government Girls Higher Secondary School Bijapur Rajrani Pambhoi, Bhanwarsingh Kashyap, RG Sharma D Subbaiah, Chhotelal Gajbhiye, Kailash Ramteke, Purushottam Chandrakar, Arun Singh, Bemarsingh, Rajuprasad Shah and other teachers were behind the successful organisation of the competitions.