Three girls, Saumya Soni, Garima Chaudhary and Tasneem Wagpura topped in their respective categories in the the UT and Big Bazaar initiated Inter School Essay Competition themed on “Udaipur of My Dreams”. The prize distribution ceremony was conducted today at Big Bazaar. Over 600 students from 20 schools of Udaipur participated in the competition..

In the event that started from the first week of October, the month long competition flowed all over Udaipur schools and every participant put in great efforts in penning down their Dream Udaipur. Many entries were finely written and decorated with various photographs, etc.

The Essay competition was divided into three age groups namely Senior, Junior and Sub Junior. Somya Soni of class 12^th from Central Academy, Hiran Magri Sector-3 won the first prize in the Senior category while Siddiqa Magar (class 10^th) of St. Mary’s and Jhalak Jadhwani (class 10^th) St Mary’s Convent won second and third place respectively.

Garima Chaudhary (Class 9^th) and Shrijita Basu Dhar (class 10^th) of Central Academy Hiran Magri sector-3 grabbed first and second place while Hemang Chaudhary (class 9^th) from St Paul’s stood on the third position in the Junior category.

In the Sub-Junior category, Tasneem Wagpura (class 6^th) of Taiyyebiah School stood on first place while Tanmay Shrimali (class 6^th) of St. Paul’s and Manasi Meena (class 7^th) of Central Academy, Hiran Magri sector-5 received second and third place respectively.

All entries were judged by a panel of judges consisting of scholars and professionals from various fields. The program started today at 11am, anchored by 94.3 My FM’s RJ Ankit. The 4^th floor of Big Bazaar was crowded with students and their parents.

The Chief Guest of the event Dr. N.C Jain, Chief Forest Conservator (Udaipur Forest Department) stirred the audience with his touching speech on how to make a better Udaipur by adopting environment friendly activities.

Special guests of the event including Retd. Commander Mansoor Ali Bohra, Director of Unico Management Solutions and Dr. Anupam Bhargava, Banker and Economist, while Anuj Singh and Deepak of Big Bazaar gave their presence to make the event successful.

All winning participants who were not present in today’s event can collect their certificate and prize from Big Bazaar and Resonance.

Further, all the participants who had submitted their entries can collect their participation certificates from Big Bazar main Counter as well.

Prize Winners (1 to 3^rd position) Big Bazaar, Near Sukhadia Circle.

Prize Winners (4-10^th position) Resonance Centre, Anand Plaza.

A special thanks fromUdaipurTimes.com to Big Bazaar, Udaipur Management team of Anuj Singh and Deepak and their entire staff with whose support this event could be held at such a big scale.

UT and Big Bazaar express their appreciation to the other sponsors Resonance, MaxPro Education and Lifestyle Cards for their support. UT also thanks Ankit and MYFM for their support.

Kindly note:

The top 3 entries will be published on UdaipurTimes.com on Monday, November 5, 2012. Entries for all positions from 4th to 10th will also be published on UT. Other participants who want their entries published on UT can submit their articles in soft copy (MS Word) to UT by email on akhtar@udaipurtimes.com.

Original entries can be collected from Udaipurtimes.com Office opposite Lok Kala Mandal.