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Girls bag all prizes of CIFA-Thums Up Painting Contest

• Seven year old Sanjana Garg adjudged the best in junior category
• Overwhelming response to the painting contest with hundreds participating
• Jury finds the level of imagination of participants highly appreciable

Hyderabad, April 30: Girls bagged all the seven prizes of the CIFA-Thums Up Rural Games painting contest held in the city on Saturday as part of the inaugural ceremony of the 40-day extravaganza organized by Hindustan Coca-Cola and Consortium of Indian Farmers Association.

Seven year old Sanjana Garg, 3rd standard student of the Delhi Public School and C. Indraja Reddy, 10th standard student from the St. Peters High School, topped in the junior and senior sections respectively of the painting contest. The topic of the painting contest was “Rural Games and Rural Ambience”.

The painting contest conducted for children below 15 years of age received an overwhelming response with hundreds of budding artists lending expression to their sentiments reinforcing the spirit of the CIFA-Thums Up Rural Games.

The winners were decided by a jury comprising eminent artist Asha Radhika and Dr Suresh, president of the Osmania Medical College Doctors Association, who commended the level of imagination of the participants. Winners of the contest received cash prizes and certificates from the organizers.

Following are the winners of the contest:

Painting Contest held at Hyderabad on April 28

Category Prize / Name Age / Class Name of the School

Juniors

I - Sanjana Garg
II - Bhakti Singh
III - Spandana
7 / III
10 / V
10 / VI
Delhi Public School
Chirec Public School
Nalanda Vidyalaya

Seniors

I - C. Indraja Reddy
II - M. Sneha
III - R. Sai Sruthi
15 / X
11 / VII
12 / VII
St.Peters High School
Chinmaya Vidyalaya
Bhavan’s Sri Ramakrishna
Consolation S Rajshree Rao 6 / II St.Anns High School

The CIFA-Thums Up Rural Games was inaugurated by Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy, Union Minister of State for Mines and Shri Shabbir Ali Mohd, State Minister for Energy, Coal, Minorities Welfare, Wakf & Urudu Academies, accompanied by AICC member Gudur Narayana Reddy by lighting the traditional lamp.

The Andhra Pradesh leg of the Games will now move over to 20 other locations in the next 40 days before culminating with a grand finale on the first week of June. It will then move to Karnataka and Maharashtra.

 

 RURAL GAMES 2006