Faridabad win drama trophy in Haryana Youth Festival

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, SEPT 1

Faridabad District won drama competition in the 19^th State Level Youth Festival which concluded in Sirsa today., Kaithal and Jhajjar finished runners-up and third, respectively.

          While stating this here today, a spokesman of Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Department said that prizes were distributed to the young artists bagging first, second and third position in different events during the closing function held at CMK Girls College, Sirsa today. He said that in classical music singing Hindustani competition, Karnal stood first, Gurgaon second and Palwal third. Similarly, in classical music singing karnataki competition, Mahendergarh bagged first position. In sitar competition, Faridabad stood first, Karnal and Bhiwani stood second and third respectively.

          In flute competition, district Ambala bagged first position whereas Gurgaon and Sirsa bagged second and third positions respectively. In harmonium lite, Rohtak stood first, Sonepat second and Panipat third whereas in guitar, Gurgaon stood first and Rothak and Sirsa stood second and third respectively. Similarly, in folk song competition district Kaithal bagged first position, Fatehabad bagged second position and Rohtak and Mahendergarh stood third. In Manipuri dance, Narnaul bagged first position, Kaithal and Jind bagged second and third position respectively whereas in Odisi dance, Faridabad stood first, Sonepat and Kaithal stood second and third respectively.

          He said that in Bharatnatyam, Panchkula stood first, Yamunanagar second and Panipat third whereas in Kathak, Palwal stood first, Faridabad and Kurukshetra stood second and third respectively. Similarly, in Kuchipudi dance, Panchkula stood first, Yamunanagar and Narnaul stood second and third respectively whereas in folk dance, Rohtak bagged first position and Kaithal and Sirsa bagged second and third positions respectively. In debate competition, Gurgaon, Panipat and Sonepat stood first, second and third respectively.

         Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Department, Mr. Hardeep Kumar gave away prizes to the winners. Mr. Hardeep Kumar announced that new competitions would be added in the next State level Youth Festival so as to ensure participation of more artistes and prize money given to the participants would also be increased. The participants bagging first position would be sent to the National Level Youth Festival which would be held between January 12 and 16, 2013 in Patna.