Surguja division overall champion in cultural competition and Bilaspur division overall champion in literary competition.
The winning participants will participate in the National Cultural and Literary Competition organized in Dehradun from 3rd to 6th October.
Raipur, 13 September 2023
The state level cultural and intellectual competition of Eklavya Model Residential Schools, organized under the aegis of Chhattisgarh State Level Tribal Welfare, Residential and Ashram Educational Institutions Committee, concluded today. Surguja division became overall champion in the cultural competition. All the participants securing first position in these competitions will participate in the National Cultural and Literary Competition to be held in Dehradun from 3rd to 6th October. State level cultural competition was organized at Thakur Pyarelal Panchayat and Rural Development Institute, Nimora Raipur and intellectual competition was organized at Prayas Residential School, Saddu Raipur.
Surguja division won the cultural competition. Surguja division stood first in group singing, group dance, painting, theater and also stood first in teachers’ music competition – vocal classic, vocal semiclassic and folk song. Central region stood at second place and Bastar division stood at third place. In the literary competition, Bilaspur Central region stood first in most of the literary genres, while Surguja division stood second and Bastar division stood third. All the winners of the competition were congratulated by Tribal and Scheduled Caste Minister Shri Mohan Markam, Secretary Shri D.D. Singh and Commissioner Smt. Shammi Abidi have congratulated and best wishes.
In the state level cultural competition, group singing, group dance, playing of tribal instruments, semi-classical solo song, painting, theater and teachers’ concert were held. In the literary competition, competition was organized in a total of 10 literary genres like speech, extempore, debate, story telling, creative writing, Sanskrit verse, Hindi poetry recitation, English poetry, English quiz, English spell bee.
In the state level cultural and intellectual competition of Eklavya Model Residential Schools, Sahanpur, Surguja stood first, Balod (Central Region) second and Orchha Narayanpur (Bastar) stood third in group singing. In group dance, Premnagar Surajpur (Surguja) stood first, Karpavand Bastar stood second and Gariaband (Central region) stood third. In the tribal musical instrument competition, Dhamtari (Madhya Kshetra) stood first, Karpavand Bastar stood second and Petla (Surguja) stood third. In the solo song competition, Gariaband (Central Region) stood first, Chheribeda Bastar stood second and Sahanpur (Surguja) stood third. In the painting competition, Shivpur (Surguja) got first place, Korba (Central Region) got second place and Golawand Bastar got third place. In the theater competition, Balrampur (Surguja) stood first, Mugeli (Central Region) stood second and Karpavand, Bastar stood third.
Apart from this, a competition was organized in the music section for the teachers of Eklavya Vidyalaya. In this, Mainpat Surguja stood first in vocal classic music, Odgi Surguja stood first and Gariaband stood second in vocal semi-classic music. Surajpur Surguja stood first in folk songs and Raigarh stood first and Surajpur Surguja stood second in instrumental music. All the winners were honored with certificates and mementos.
results of literary competition
Tapeshwar Sai from Surguja was the winner in the Hindi senior category of Extempore genre, Ishika from Madhya Kshetra in the English senior category, Jaiprakash Sidar from Madhya Kshetra in the debate senior category competition and Tejeshwari Manjhi from Bastar was the winner in the English senior category. In the story telling competition, Aditi Bhagat from Surguja stood first in Hindi and Ashrit Tirkey stood first in English. Raghavendra from Madhya Kshetra stood first in the creative writing competition in Hindi and Rakhi Madakam from Bastar stood first in English. Prachi Meriya of Bastar got first place in Sanskrit verse competition, Anglian Tirkey of Surguja in Hindi poetry recitation, Deepika of Surguja in English poetry, Anila and Shashikala of Madhyakshetra in English quiz, Smita Kanwar and Aanchal Pulast of Madhyakshetra got first place in Spell Bee. .
