The Indian Council for Child Welfare in collaboration with Chhattisgarh State Council for Child Welfare has selected best painters from the State for their entries for the National Painting Competition —2014.
Raipur District In-charge for the competition, Ajay Tripathi and the Coordinator Rajendra Nigam informed that the selected entries will sent to Delhi for the national level competition to be held there.The entries from Chhattisgarh will be exhibited along with the entries selected from other parts of the country during the ‘Bal Mahotsav’, they added.
For selection of the best paintings out of all the entries received from across the State, a panel of judges comprised of the director of Mahakoushal Kala Parishad, Praveen Sharma, the Director of Art Shala, Pramod Sahu and well-known painter, Dipendu Mandal had been constituted.During the selection process, State In-charge of the competition Indira Jain, the State Council In-charge CEO RG Goswami and Raipur district Vice-coordinator Sunita Chansoria was present.
As decided, Samruddhi Gupta, Ojasvi Malu and Om Chandrawanshi respectively stood on first, second and third position in 5 to 8 years of age group (Green group) while Sambhavi Sharma came first followed by Disha Thakur on second and Prinka Naag and Anshuman Sharma jointly stood on third position in 9 to 12 years of age group (White group).In 13-18 years age group (Blue group), Jason George, Gagan Yaduwanshi and Manas Chowdhary stood first, second and third position respectively. Entries from a special group created for the differently-abled children were also selected for the national-level event.